GLEN ROCK, NJ – The Borough Council introduced an ordinance to prohibit the operation of any class of businesses for recreational marijuana within its borders.
“We don’t want to operate in the dark,” Mayor Kristine Morieko said on June 9.
Morieko was referring to the state of New Jersey’s progress on regulating recreational marijuana sale statewide. While recreational marijuana use has been authorized by the voting public, and the governor has signed into law the “New Jersey Cannabis Regulatory, Enforcement Assistance, and Marketplace Modernization Act,” realistically, marijuana in this category won’t be available for sale until 2022.
Morieko produced several slides of evidence (see photos).
The ordinance is prohibiting six marketplace classes of licensed recreational marijuana businesses is explained for the following reason: “Due to the present uncertainties regarding the potential future impacts that allowing one or more classes of cannabis business might have on New Jersey municipalities…Glen Rock in particular, it is in the best interest…of Glen Rock to amend zoning regulations to prohibit all manner of marijuana-related land use and development within the geographic boundaries of the borough.”
The public hearing and possible passage of the ordinance is scheduled for late July when in-person meetings will likely take place.