>Medical pot growers face a new hurdle
It took years for advocates of medical marijuana to sell New Jersey lawmakers on the idea of allowing certain patients to legally use pot.
An even bigger task, some advocates are now finding, may be persuading towns to approve places for them to do business.
Eight months after being selected by the state, only two of six groups approved to grow and sell marijuana to qualifying patients have firm sites. Others have run into stiff local opposition, including in Burlington County.
Ken Wolski, executive director of the Coalition for Medical Marijuana of New Jersey, watched residents of Upper Freehold rally Tuesday against a proposed legal pot farm in their town.
“It struck me,” Wolski said, “as townsfolk with torches and pitchforks chasing them out of town.” (Mulvihill, Associated Press)
