All of N.J.s adult legal weed stores are run by big corporations. That has to change, many say.
With the last big company-owned dispensary selling adult recreational marijuana in New Jersey this year up and running in Fort Lee, smaller operators like Salvatore Piazza contend the state must now focus on helping folks like himself, the so-called little guys trying to enter the nascent cannabis industry.
Its embarrassing for the CRC (New Jersey Cannabis Regulatory Commission) that even though were so deep into it that all the state has are these multi-state operators, said Piazza, alluding to the giant national companies that have set up shop in the Garden State and own and operate all 21 stores selling adult weed. Keep up with the latest on legal weed in New Jersey. Add your email here.
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