Sponsored by:
Assemblyman GORDON M. JOHNSON
District 37 (Bergen)
Assemblywoman VALERIE VAINIERI HUTTLE
District 37 (Bergen)
SYNOPSIS
Provides medical cannabis dispensaries permitted use status in certain zoning districts.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning the location of medical cannabis dispensaries and supplementing P.L.1975, c.291 (C.40:55D-1 et seq.).
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. A medical cannabis dispensary shall be a permitted use within every commercial or business district of a municipality, and any other zoning district within which a pharmacy, a drugstore, or a retail business is a permitted or conditional use.
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill would provide that a medical cannabis dispensary is a permitted use in a commercial or business district of a municipality, and in any other zoning district within which a pharmacy, a drugstore, or a retail business is a permitted or conditional use. A medical cannabis dispensary is an organization that has been issued a permit by the State to, among other things, purchase medical cannabis and sell it to qualifying patients.