The CRC has refused, multiple times, to release the specific number of licenses, claiming it has no data available to do so.
Black and Hispanic populations in New Jersey and elsewhere bore the brunt of collateral damage in the War on Drugs.
New Jersey is also a pharmaceutical powerhouse, with multiple companies having headquarters in the state.
Companies claiming diversity should be a data point, Alb said.
24, its most recent public meeting, fell short of committing to a firm date, only offering that it was optimistic that it would be sooner than later.
“I hope that when this industry is stood up, he’ll be pleasantly surprised,” Murphy said of Payne’s criticism on the market’s lack of diversity for Black people.
“The goalpost continues to move, the barrier is extremely high.
But it’s not enough to say it’s being transparent, observers say.
Harmon is not alone in this assertion.
Some of those applicants forwarded details about other companies to NJ Advance Media last October.
In 2019, Curio brought a lawsuit against Maryland cannabis regulators to prevent them from awarding licenses that were meant to boost participation of minority license holders, asserting the state already had a sufficient supply of cannabis.
Legal documents allege Holistic NJ is a shell company for a larger one, Holistic Industries, with majority white-male leadership that would not qualify for such a designation.
After months of redirections and multiple deadline extensions on the records request, some of which were missed, the data was denied Feb.
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