New Jersey Cannabis Regulatory Commission Gets To Work

The New Jersey Cannabis Regulatory Commission ("CRC") has finally come into existence, and now, the hard work begins.

By way of background, the CRC was created by statute as part of New Jersey's medical cannabis expansion law, though the full roster of commissioners was only recently appointed. The CRC will oversee both the medical and adult-use cannabis marketplace, and is tasked by New Jersey's adult-use implementation law with creating the rules and regulations that will govern the structure and scope of the adult-use. Indeed, New Jersey's adult use bill requires that the CRC spend the next six (6) months creating the rules and regulations for how the marketplace will be governed, and only at that point may the CRC begin soliciting adult-use cannabis licenses. And remember, because the CRC oversees both the medical and adult-use marketplaces, nothing prevents the CRC from utilizing the current medical market framework to solicit additional medical licenses in the