The vote came less than three weeks after the commission rejected the applications of alternative treatment centers as Brown announced they were about 100,000 pounds short of meeting the demand for both the medical and recreational markets.
The panel on Monday also approved another 34 conditional licenses for smaller cultivators and manufacturers to grow crops and build out their facilities.
“These approvals were given based on commitments from the ATCs that we would not see adverse effects with expansion,” she said in a statement issued after the meeting.
Phil Murphy campaigned for the state’s top office on legalizing adult-use recreational cannabis in 2017 to what he said then was a way to help communities most harmed by the nation’s war on drugs that disproportionally affected Black and brown men.
The Garden State is now among 16 states — and only the third on the East Coast — that have fully legalized adult-use cannabis.
After the commission rejected the applications on March 24, Senate President Nicholas Scutari, D-Union, said he plans to hold Senate oversight hearings over what he called “unacceptable” delays.
The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Advance Local.