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The day after Election Day, Assemblyman Jamel C. Holley sounded fired up during a business trade’s panel discussion about the future of legalized marijuana in New Jersey. He’s hopeful about passing an adult-use bill in the lame-duck legislative session.

As one of the lead Assembly sponsors, Holley’s perspective matters.

“We are going to try it again. The elections are over. I think a lot of the problems with colleagues is they did not want to deal with it and make it an issue in terms of their primary campaign and the general campaign,” said Holley, D-Union, as reported in NJ Cannabis Insider this week.

Holley, as well as Assemblyman Raj Mukherji, D-Middlesex, who is majority whip of the General Assembly and founder of CannaPharmacy, will be joined by Lynn Nowak, a widely respected cannabis lobbyist with Porzio Governmental Affairs to speak at our Nov. 20 networking event in Atlantic City.

There are a limited number of tickets. For more information or to sign-up, look here for details.

The NJ Cannabis Insider meetup coincides with the New Jersey League of Municipalities conference taking place that week, featuring the panel "Marijuana: Looking Ahead & Looking Back.” The happy hour takes place from 5-7 p.m. at Rhythm & Spirits.

“We are at the finish line here in New Jersey. We are a few votes short in the Senate,” Holley said, noting that Senate President Stephen Sweeney has said he was prepared to resume lobbying for passage. “I feel confident — more than ever — we will eventually get this done in lame duck session.”

Nowak serves as the co-chair of Porzio’s Cannabis Task Force and regularly monitors cannabis related legislation in New Jersey and lobbies on behalf of clients.

Mukherji, whose company CannaPharmacy Inc. was recently acquired by multi-state operator Harvest Health, will address federal issues, including the SAFE Banking, as well as clinical research. He was a co-operator of one the state’s first six dispensaries — Garden State Dispensary, which just opened a second location in July. Mukherji also happens to be NJ Cannabis Insider’s first subscriber.

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