Medical Marijuana Center Set to Open in Woodbridge as Early as September

On May 2, the Assembly Budget Committee announced approval of the Woodbridge facility.

Medical Marijuana Center Set to Open in Woodbridge as Early as September

On May 2, the Assembly Budget Committee announced approval of the Woodbridge facility.

A medical marijuana center could open in Woodbridge as early as this September, following the approval by State officials at an Assembly Budget Committee hearing on May 2, according to NJ Spotlight. The Woodbridge location, Compassionate Care Center of America Foundation Inc. plans to be open daily from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. At the meeting, State Health Commissioner Mary E. O’Dowd announced the approval of the medical marijuana facility in Woodbridge, adding that a letter was sent to the foundation’s owner, David Weisser on April 25. Compassionate Care Center of America Foundation Inc. will be located at 950 U.S. Highway 1 North in Woodbridge (formerly 6th Avenue Electronics) and is already listed on the State of NJ Department of Health’s …

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slyfox1961

7:30 am on Thursday, May 9, 2013

@joe bear: is anyone asking or forcing you to smoke marajuana? If not, then stop trying to push your values onto everyone else and shut up. The clinic will be tightly regulated, and will be very difficult to get a prescription. This is not LA. Also, regular drug stores cano not sell marajuana until it is removed from the fedreal class one drug list. Having specialized state licensed clinics such …   more ›

Bill Clears Way for Med Marijuana Users

Legislation in NJ, which would enable medical marijuana users to get transplants, seeks to prevent repeat of controversial cases at California hospital

Should users of medical marijuana be prevented from getting needed organ transplants? Not according to a bill being considered by state legislators, which treats medical marijuana as no different from any other prescription drug. Such patients would be treated the same way as those using other prescription drugs under a bill being considered by state legislators. The measure, A-765, was prompted by a California case in which a medical marijuana user was denied an organ transplant. While some doctors have raised concerns about the potential effects of marijuana for transplant recipients, others have said marijuana has been found to be medically necessary and shouldn’t be a barrier to a transplant. The issue is further complicated by …

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420 College

2:32 pm on Sunday, February 10, 2013

lets go, lets get this ting done already... http://420college.net   more ›

Mayor Says Pot Shop is Just Another "Retail Store"

Mayor John McCormac got some questions at Tuesday's council meeting about how the medical marijuana dispensary coming to town was on the QT for over a year.

The medical marijuana store that may soon be setting up on Route 1 in Woodbridge is just another retail store. Mayor John McCormac said that the opening of the Compassionate Care Center of New Jersey's pot shop "is just like Boscov's," a mid-level retailer soon to be moving into Woodbridge Center's old Fortunoff store. "It's a retail use turning into another retail use," the mayor said, comparing Compassionate Care to the new flagship department store due to open at the local mall. The mayor and other officials were peppered with questions from the public at a Tuesday night council meeting about the news last week that the medical marijuana emporium was coming to town. McCormac said then that he knew about the company's efforts to open in…

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gary seven

2:27 pm on Thursday, October 11, 2012

just like the OTW Siting of MAY 2006.page 43 on ---read it.................. http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/legislativepub/pubhear/swt051106.pdf SENATOR BUONO: But isn’t part or the problem the public perception associated with OTB, that there’s local objection? I know iin Woodbridge-   more ›

Pot Shop Not a Done Deal

The medical marijuana dispensary, slated to be open in Woodbridge, still faces hurdles before it comes to fruition.

Mayor John McCormac may be welcoming a medical marijuana warehouse within months to Woodbridge, but there are still a few steps before that becomes a reality. The former 6th Ave. Electronics, which closed last year, is on Route 1, which is a redevelopment zone. An official in the town's planning department said that the project has to come before the Woodbridge Redevelopment Agency, and then the Planning Board, before it's approved.  Route 1 in Woodbridge is a redevelopment zone, the offical explained. The various hearings the project must go through will give township residents an opportunity to weigh in on siting the marijuana warehouse within town limits. "It has to come before different agencies to be approved," the official said. …

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Mayor Says Medical Marijuana Warehouse is "Welcome in Woodbridge"

Other towns are trying to shut out medical marijuana clinics; in Woodbridge, Mayor John McCormac welcomes them. One may be open here in as little as four months.

One of six medical marijuana clinics in the state will be situated in Woodbridge, and it could be just four months away from opening. Compassionate Care Centers of New Jersey, which has been trolling about for a town in central New Jersey to host a medical marijuana dispensary, bought the defunct 6th Avenue Electronics store on Route 1, according to a report on nj.com, with plans to turn it into a warehouse to grow and sell the plant. The pot purveyors purchased the electronics store building last week for $2.75 million, nj.com reported, saying the buy had been in the works for over a year, even though 6th Avenue Electronics only went out of business last October.  Medical marijuana centers have had a hard time trying to find …

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Tom Maras

11:26 am on Wednesday, February 27, 2013

If it is such a great medical benefit to those suffering, why isn't it being dispense from pharmacies, and why is the State going to tax it? Do some research on the downside of the "product" and then say the benefits outweigh those downsides. As sure as oxycodone has been over prescribed and has created a huge illegal market for it, the Pot Shops will do the same! And do you really think the five…   more ›

POLL: Is New Jersey Taking Too Long with Medical Marijuana?

Today sick patients can sign up for an ID card to buy pot to help their pain - except there is no place yet set up in NJ where they can legally make the purchase.

Remember medical marijuana? Today it's back in a big way: the NJ Department of Health is opening up a marijuana registry list so seriously sick patients who want the wacky weed to take away their pain will get an ID card to buy the stuff. The patient or a caregiver can now sign up with the state, pay a $200 fee, and be legally entitled to purchase pot for their illness through the Medicinal Marijuana Program (MMP). The problem, though, is that there isn't any place in New Jersey where you can legally buy pot - at least, not any place that resembles a medical dispensary. That's because the same law that enabled the use of marijuana for chronic, even terminal, illnesses established Alternative Treatment Centers (ATC) where pot can be …

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