Inside New Jersey’s Legal Weed Boom
Inside New Jersey’s Legal Weed Boom
As marijuana legalization spreads, states are looking at different ways to ensure those most affected by decades of racially biased anti-drug policies have a leg up.
Under a special program, New Jersey prioritizes granting licenses to dispensaries run by people with marijuana convictions on their records.
Lawmakers hope that by making equity a cornerstone of their newly legalized markets, those who dealt marijuana in the illegal, or “legacy,” market will be persuaded to go legit.
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Inside New Jersey’s Push to Get Ex-Cons Into Cannabis Capitalism
Now the question is 😮
WHERE ARE YOU AT 😊😮
Marijuana legalization = end of the next generation
Big business has won
Marijuana strains lees legal oppressive license informant
Marijuana is evil.
I never knew it was ILLEGAL?!?!
Happy 420
🖤🇰🇪🤩🤩😍
Tahir johnson is the oldest of my three sons. Our family is very proud of his accomplishments and hard work and that he’s able to share his story and experiences ❤️
Much love Geojo
Marijuana is herbal medicine
LEGALIZE IT FEDERALLY ALREADY END CANNABIS PROHIBITION NOW
Please support your local dealers
I am not too sure the mayor is selling a good message. We lost all our manufacturing, so we are going to rely on service sector work that is limited to within city. It’s not like it will increase tourism. Visit Trenton, get dope from a former drug dealer and gang banger.
😂😭💀 Not turn their experience from being defeated in the drug war into economic success!!! 💀⚰️🪦
Success is not built on success. It’s built on failure, It’s built on fraustration. it’s built on fear that you have to overcome. I pray that anyone who reads this will be successful in life
Economic crash in usa n usd crash instead of Russia crash
Usa….a miserable failed state ridden in 100s trillions usd debt
He should know nobody cares about Political Outrage anymore 😅a
Legalise cannabis in the UK.
Excuse me, let me promote it here
Long live for Taiwan Independent
Never forget the 228 incident
Both the ((Republic of China) (KMT)) and the ((People’s Republic of China) (CCP)) are enemies of Taiwan
There are communist allies in the roc army
LOL, interesting idea, give priority to people that are known criminals because of some guilt ridden idea about racially motivated drug busts. Nothing about who’s lives he might have destroyed while doing drugs or distributing drugs, clearly we should give criminals the MOST help and first because all they ever do is perform victimless crimes, right?
Wine is alchol
He called them "young entreprenuers." 😁
If this helps lower the appalling recidivism rate and the tangible and intangible social cost then I’m all for it.
What Boom? The nearest recreational dispensary is 2 hours away from me.
NJ needs a truly free market that allows ALL to participate…
Getting a license should be like getting any other business license
THIS is the problem with NJ!!…..it’s so insanely expensive and over regulated, over complicated, that the market Collapses on itself……they try to "control" everything to the point of actually Killing it, instead of letting it flourish……I’m done, I’m out, this state has become a joke, a parody of itself.
It feels like this comment section has more bots than real comments
It’s a great way for them to get back to a life of crime.
SNOOP DOGG POT FARMER DANCE SONG $$
I got out my pipe stuffed it with pot
You better believe it held a whole lot.
I whipped out a lighter thumbed up a flame
Sucked down that smoke which comforts my brain.
I tried alcohol smoked cigarettes
They did nothing but give me regrets.
My mom had arthritis could not walk around
I rolled her a joint she danced on the ground.
I thought I was losing my lovemaking knack
After I smoked some to me it came back.
Soon I decided prices were high
I searched for some ground I wouldn’t have to buy.
I bargained for seeds from smokers all around
Got in my truck and drove out of town.
I walked through the woods where wild birds nest
Found me the meadow I thought was the best.
I dug up the ground sowed all my seeds
Said a small prayer for strong, healthy weeds.
I watered at night with a five-gallon pail
Mosquitoes went hungry for I wore a veil.
Seven months went by; I thought I would die
Till the Halloween moon was high in the sky.
At night I went out, in a camouflage suit
Used my corn knife to chop down the loot.
I hung it up to dry where it couldn’t be found.
Came back and got it, when it had turned brown.
I trimmed off the buds, stuffed them in bags
Called all my friends and passed out free drags.
In less than a week my crop was gone
I flew to St. Thomas with a love hungry blonde!!
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why buy when you can let them grow weeds in gardens ?
Fyi the legal weed business is not the cash cow you think it is.
Every state SHOULD also expunge marijuana convictions from the past too while they’re at it!
This is Soo bad
Has anyone else ever been to NJ weedman? I think you’d get the joke on why he doesn’t have a license but I’m not blowing up the spot I love that place. But you know…😂
Just follow their rules! Good luck!
They just now legalized ?
There are no racial biases.
It grows on a plant and you dry it I wish people would stop talking about it and making such a big deal about it
Wrd my city🔝
Why is it brown fingers lighting a blunt in the intro when white people smoke more – white people are the majority in the u.s
Every year this industry is booming with no profits
cannabis isnt about equity… its about FREEDOM
Glad seeing black own dispensary
Disney character panties are the most cutest and comfortable kind of panties to wear hgtr
4:26 my dude looking like a Jarl from Skyrim.
Whaiit he say whaiit he say
Do you own a cannabis business or you are looking at getting started and in need of funding? I’m a business broker and I have investors interested in entering the cannabis business market. I’m open to work!
I’m so proud of you!
Bet its mostly republicons funding in disguise.
The big Elephant in the room is that banks don’t want to touch this industry so the only ones willing to fund this industry is "CARTEL MONEY"