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New Jersey Won't See Legal Marijuana Sales Until January 2020 at Earliest, Top Lawmaker Says

Lawmakers are making progress in negotiations over a sweeping package of legislation to legalize adult-use marijuana, expand the state's medical program and overhaul the rules for expunging drug-related violations.

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New Jersey will likely not see any legal marijuana sales until January at the earliest, the Senate president said late Thursday.

The remarks come as Gov. Phil Murphy, Senate President Stephen Sweeney and Assembly Speaker Craig Coughlin, all Democrats, are making progress in negotiations over a sweeping package of legislation to legalize marijuana for recreational use, expand the state's medical marijuana program and overhaul the rules for expunging drug-related and other violations.

The trio last week resolved a longstanding disagreement over how to tax legal weed sales and settled some aspects of how a new regulatory system would work. But a final compromise remains elusive.

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