Though nearly 70% of New Jersey voters said yes to legal recreational marijuana, nearly the same percentage of municipalities said no to having it sold in their towns as of last summer. That was the deadline to decide their plans for recreational marijuana businesses within their borders. But some towns are now changing their minds. Princeton, once onboard, passed a ban this week. Other towns are reversing bans, and some are still hashing out the details of where and how many businesses can open up shop.
“We don’t want to see shops in the middle of town. We don’t want to see shops anywhere else but right there. It’s away from everything, it’s in the back of the industrial area, it really does not bother anyone. They’ve been down there for several years now, no police activity at all. They have their own security down there, and they really run a tight ship,” said Secaucus mayor Michael Gonnelli, referring to the Harmony Dispensary, which sells medical marijuana in Secaucus and said it is applying to sell recreational marijuana.
