Last year’s ballot referendum to legalize recreational pot in New Jersey passed with 67% of the vote at the state level and with 64% of the vote in Stafford Township – but the governing body has voted 5-2 to opt out of the cannabis business until more information about the new law can be gathered and understood, effectively crushing the dreams (for now, anyway) of two impassioned citizens who had come before the mayor and council to beseech them to table the vote so experts could be brought in…
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