In a statement launched following the choice by New Jersey regulators to deny the renewal of Curaleaf’s adult-use hashish license, Boris Jordan, Curaleaf’s chairman, mentioned the corporate would use “any authorized means vital” to “guarantee renewal” of the permits.
Within the assertion, Jordan referred to as the motion by the New Jersey Hashish Regulatory Fee’s (CRC) Board “unprecedented” and “disappointing” and that the choice “overrode the Fee’s personal workers advice that our grownup use licenses be renewed.”
“We imagine the CRC Board has wrongly interpreted the relevant rules and that its resolution to retaliate towards Curaleaf for our have to consolidate manufacturing into one native facility is missing in advantage. Curaleaf has by no means been cited for such a violation and we imagine there isn’t any regulation requiring permission for the workers discount we introduced. Curaleaf is in good standing with the CRC and has fulfilled the necessities vital for the renewal of our licenses.” — Jordan in an April 14 assertion
The CRC, on April 13, cited a call by Curaleaf final month to shut considered one of its cultivation services and lay off 40 staff as one purpose for revoking the corporate’s adult-use license. Regulators additionally cited Curaleaf’s conflict with unionization and the corporate’s lack of transparency as causes for rejecting the license renewal. New Jersey’s adult-use hashish legislation requires licensees to keep up enterprise peace agreements as a situation and requires collective bargaining inside 200 days after a dispensary first opens if the vast majority of staff vote to type a union.
Curaleaf’s adult-use license expires on Friday. Within the assertion, Curaleaf mentioned it “stays open for enterprise and can proceed working with the CRC Board and its workers to make sure renewal” of its adult-use licenses.
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