{"id":3066,"date":"2021-12-16T13:00:31","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T13:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/CBMib2h0dHBzOi8vY29ubmVjdGljdXQubmV3czEyLmNvbS9odW5kcmVkcy1vZi1uZXctamVyc2V5LXJlc2lkZW50cy1hcHBseS1mb3ItbGljZW5zZXMtdG8tb3Blbi1tYXJpanVhbmEtYnVzaW5lc3Nlc9IBAA"},"modified":"2021-12-16T13:00:31","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T13:00:31","slug":"hundreds-of-new-jersey-residents-apply-for-licenses-to-open-marijuana-businesses-news-12-connecticut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/?p=3066","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of New Jersey residents apply for licenses to open marijuana businesses &#8211; News 12 Connecticut"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/hundreds-of-new-jersey-residents-apply-for-licenses-to-open-marijuana-businesses-news-12-connecticut.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"byline\">\n<p><span class=\"public-at\">Dec 16, 2021, 12:59pm<\/span><span class=\"text\">Updated 4h ago<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>By: <\/span><span class=\"author\">News 12 Staff<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Are you thinking of opening a marijuana business? You&#8217;re not alone.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday morning, hundreds applied for licenses after New Jersey began taking applications which include recreational facilities.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In April of this year, a medical dispensary&nbsp;in Neptune opened its doors.&nbsp;Zen&nbsp;Leaf became only one of a few shore area dispensaries offering medical marijuana and that will change soon. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Last week, New Jersey awarded 30 new licenses to medical facilities more than doubling the current number of 23 operating.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Applications for dispensaries will begin to be accepted in March.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"related-stories\" class=\"jsx-2652667184\">\n<p><span class=\"jsx-2652667184\">Related <\/span><span class=\"jsx-2652667184\">Stories<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"share-icons\"><span>Share this story<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dec 16, 2021, 12:59pmUpdated 4h ago By: News 12 Staff Are you thinking of opening a marijuana business? You&#8217;re not alone.&nbsp; Yesterday morning, hundreds applied for licenses after New Jersey began taking applications which include recreational facilities.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In April of this year, a medical dispensary&nbsp;in Neptune opened its doors.&nbsp;Zen&nbsp;Leaf became only one of a few shore area dispensaries offering medical marijuana and that will change soon. &nbsp; Last week, New Jersey awarded 30 new licenses to medical facilities more than doubling the current number of 23 operating.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Applications for dispensaries will begin to be accepted in March.&nbsp; Related Stories Share&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/hundreds-of-new-jersey-residents-apply-for-licenses-to-open-marijuana-businesses-news-12-connecticut.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}