In the New Jersey Monitor article, “Bill Would let People Bar Themselves from Entering Cannabis Shops,” Managing Director Bill Caruso, commented on a newly proposed bill in the Legislature that would allow people to volunteer to be on a list barring them from entering dispensaries or buying cannabis products . The measure is similar to a state program that launched in 2001 allowing people to self-exclude from entering casinos to address gambling addictions. 

Bill, who was involved in the November 2020 ballot initiative that legalized recreational cannabis, said he generally supports the goal of the bill to protect people from harm, but doesn’t see a need for it. He said he hasn’t heard any major concerns of people getting addicted to marijuana or losing their life savings because they’re buying too much cannabis. Saying it could be done, Bill questioned why it should be, saying, ” because we haven’t seen this overt harm that’s been created because of the legalization of marijuana.”

He also noted this would add to the list of duties for the state’s cannabis agency.  He wants to see it focus on other priorities like expanding the production of edibles, licensing consumption lounges, and taking on the hemp industry.

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