New Jersey’s cannabis industry is abuzz about the state’s Cannabis Regulatory Commission holding its first meeting Monday to begin setting the Garden State on a path to a long awaited adult-use market. The five-member CRC is responsible for the how many licenses are released for growing, producing, selling, delivering or testing cannabis items.
In the meantime, cannabis-centered businesses have been getting ready for when the market opens. On Tuesday, NJ Cannabis Insider Speaker Series hosts its latest mixes for the business community. A limited number of tickets are still available for the two-hour event, featuring state Sen. Vin Gopal and some of the Garden State’s most knowledgeable power players April 13.
The event, which runs from 10 a.m. to noon is presented by Foley Hoag, a full-service Cannabis Practice comprised of attorneys with unique insight and experience to assist cannabis and cannabis-related operators and investors with all aspects of their business. The speakers series event will include themes on legalization, CBD & hemp as New Jersey begins to position its cannabis industry as a northeastern economic powerhouse while simultaneously navigating difficult questions about improvements on the existing legislation and social equity.
Legal trends in the hemp marketplace, transitioning from a hemp business to a cannabis business and what future homegrow can look like within the state are some of the many topics that will be covered.
Our panel will feature Pure Genesis CEO Faye Coleman, HillviewMed CEO Ken VandeVrede and Foley Hoag cannabis law practice counsel Mike McQueeny.
McQueeny also serves as counsel for the New Jersey Cannabis Trade Association, a trade organization that represents the medical marijuana providers within the state. Outside of their respective business roles, Coleman and VandeVrede are founding members of the New Jersey CannaBusiness Association’s Hemp Policy Committee.
The committee was established in the wake of the passage of the 2018 Farm Bill when hemp went from being a Schedule 1 drug to being an agricultural commodity.
We’ll also be having a Q&A session with Gopal, D-Monmouth, who recently introduced a bill for adult-use home cultivation.
The virtual speakers series also offers a serious networking session, where cannabis insiders have the opportunity to discuss and connect with one another. Roundtables will have focused discussions on what you need to know to get in on New Jersey’s Green Rush. Supporting sponsors, include:
- Foley Hoag, our presenting sponsor, has been at the forefront of the medical and adult-use cannabis industry since the very early stages of its regulation and legalization in specific U.S. states and beyond.
- Supreme Security Alarms, New Jersey leaders in the security space, providing custom designed, state-of-art systems to protect your business.
- Hance Construction was selected to build one of the first cannabis grow facilities in New Jersey, and has since worked on other medical cannabis projects, offering consulting and site-location services.
- The New Jersey CannaBusiness Association, the Garden State’s largest trade group, operating as the state’s cannabis chamber of commerce.
- Stockton University, the interdisciplinary minor in Cannabis Studies offers students a foundation for understanding the burgeoning cannabis industry. Last week, Stockton announced it expanded its cannabis program with the opening of The Cannabis & Hemp Research Institute, which will research hemp cultivation and develop lab testing.
- NJ Cannabis Certified, which provides training for all entry level jobs in the cannabis industry, including dispensary training and entry level cultivation and lab technician training.
- The Cannabis Health Equity Movement (CHEM), which includes a coalition of BIPOC cannabis industry leaders working and innovating in the field. It recently launched CHEM Global Campus, a White House supported project, in partnership with Southern University Law Center to produce customized curriculum development for tomorrow’s cannabis leaders.
Click here for more details and to purchase tickets. Space is limited.
NJ Cannabis Insider is a weekly subscriber-based online trade journal and events group produced by NJ Advance Media, which also publishes NJ.com, The Star-Ledger and other affiliated papers.
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