, a health food restaurant in Belleville and Fresh Collection, a clothing design and apparel company that produces all official merchandise for Bloomfield College, prefers to focus on the future.
El-Amin has been working hard toward that goal for some time now. In August 2018, she said she secured nearly $9 million from an investor she met through a mutual friend and applied for a Medical Marijuana Alternative Treatment Center Permit, which is necessary to open a medical marijuana dispensary in New Jersey.
Nearly half of the 102 adult-use conditional licenses have been issued to Black and Latino people. But in order for those licenses to receive full approval, they’ll have to go through a municipal process the commission has no control over. That may become an obstacle because about 400 municipalities, or 71% of the state’s local governments, have already prohibited dispensaries from opening. They’re known as the opt-out market.
This will be a boon for organized crime and gangs. Will happen here.