The competition is already fierce to win one of the six new medicinal marijuana licenses New Jersey will be issuing later this year.
More than 800 people—a mix of lawyers, consultants and entrepreneurs from as far as Colorado and as close as Pennsylvania—attended a State Health Department meeting in Trenton to learn the ground rules for the application process.
The meeting was mandatory for anyone who intends to apply for a medical marijuana license. Jeff Brown, the assistant commissioner of the medicinal marijuana program at the Health Department, said the state does plan to issue more requests for marijuana businesses in the future. But there's a strong desire among possible purveyors to snag one of the six soon-to-be-available licenses, because many applicants see them as a back door into the legal recreational market—should that become legal in New Jersey.
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