N.J. Pot Sales to Start Within 180 Days, Years After Murphy Vow
- Jersey City, Newark will allow businesses within their borders
- More than half of towns say no, some citing concerns for kids
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New Jersey’s legal recreational marijuana sales will start within 180 days after a vote Thursday by a state panel regulating the industry. The decision primes New Jersey as a destination for adult buyers from neighboring New York, where sales haven’t started, and Pennsylvania and Delaware, which have yet to legalize pot.
New Jersey voters in November gave their approval for lawmakers to change the state constitution to allow sales, following the legislature’s years-long failure to enact legislation on its own. That still left users without places to legally buy pot while the state Cannabis Regulatory Commission worked on rules guiding dispensaries, growers and other parts of the market.