New Jersey’s Senate president has filed a bill that would allow marijuana companies to engage in interstate commerce.
Under the proposal from Sen. Nicholas Scutari (D), the governor would be empowered to “enter into an agreement with another state or states authorizing medicinal or personal-use commercial cannabis activity, or both, between entities licensed under the laws of the contracting state and entities operating with a State license” in New Jersey.
However, the reform would only take effect under certain conditions, such as if federal law changed to explicitly allow interstate marijuana commerce, the U.S. Department of Justice issued a memo saying it would tolerate the activity or if Congress passed legislation blocking officials from enforcing the prohibition on cannabis sales between states.
Alternatively, the policy could move forward if the state attorney general issued an opinion determining that the law’s implementation “will not result in significant legal risk to this State based on review of federal judicial decisions and administrative action.”
Cannabis products brought into the state from another market under the bill’s framework would need to be subject rules equivalent to New Jersey’s regulations, including with respect to testing, packaging, labeling, marketing, tracking and quality assurance.
Scutari has introduced
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