New Jersey Monitor

A new ruling from the New Jersey Supreme Court sheds light on marijuana laws as they relate to diversionary programs. It seems that people who avoided conviction for minor drug offenses via a diversionary program for first-time offenders before state lawmakers decriminalized cannabis...

Since the launch of recreational marijuana sales in New Jersey, the state has taken in $4.6 million in tax revenue in just the first 10 weeks of sales. “The market is improving. It is performing as we expect with the current number of dispensaries, the spread of...

New Jersey kicked off long-awaited recreational cannabis sales on April 21. Now that a month has passed, state regulators revealed that consumers have bought $24 million worth of cannabis, or roughly $5 million a week after a record-breaking first day when $2 million was spent. At a...

On Monday, New Jersey's regulators green-lighted the launch of the state's recreational cannabis market. The Cannabis Regulatory Commission (CRC) approved 34 conditional licenses and agreed that seven of the state's ten medical cannabis companies begin sales, possibly within weeks,...