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Municipalities are not allowed to ban residents from using marijuana, according to state law, nor can they ban licensed cannabis delivery companies from making stops within their borders.
Prior to when the new state law went into effect, on Feb. 9 the council banned cannabis dispensaries in the township, home to Rutgers SHI Stadium and the university s Livingston Campus. Under the new state law, any existing municipal ordinances regulating or prohibiting cannabis are void and must be readopted to be effective.
The New Jersey State League of Municipalities and the New Jersey Institute of Local Government Attorneys have recommended that municipalities adopt ordinances outlawing marijuana businesses until all issues with the state legislation are resolved.
Environmental justice is coming to New Jersey’s suburbs | Opinion
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We like to think of our town as a model American community with tree-lined neighborhoods, good schools and local parks. But increasingly, these assets compete with a harsh reality: Piscataway has become a hot spot for warehouse sprawl along the I-287 corridor.
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By Laura Leibowitz, Atif Nazir and Leonard Hampton
Last year, we celebrated a hard-won victory when Gov. Phil Murphy signed the state’s landmark Environmental Justice law. Urban communities of color have long borne the burden of environmental racism, suffering disproportionate exposures to toxic hazards, air pollution, unsafe water and multiple health stressors. Importantly, the new law also recognizes that overburdened communities can exist anywhere that people of color, low-income and new immigrant populations are concentrated.
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PISCATAWAY – To those who filled Piscataway High School’s football stadium Monday to celebrate the life of Kenneth R. Armwood, the deputy director of the Middlesex County Board of Commissioners, the township resident held a special distinction. You will not find anyone with a bad thing to say about Kenny Armwood. Now in politics that line is usually accompanied by the caveat, in public, but Kenny was truly different. No one could say a bad thing about him in private either, Gov. Phil Murphy said while standing behind Armwood s casket covered with flowers and a football team photo, on the field where Armwood s legacy began.