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sutisuc t1_je40vgw wrote

It is the shame of this state that we still don’t have a marijuana dispensary in either of our two biggest cities after all this talk of correcting historic injustices of targeting black and brown folks in the war on drugs.

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LateNightNewYork t1_je3pz51 wrote

Heaven forbid you could buy weed at Broad and Market.

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sprocketrevolt t1_je4rln8 wrote

Last night on the way home someone asked me if I wanted to buy some. I was shocked cuz it was probably the first time in I dunno how long it was weed and not heroin or something being offered to me.

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Mysticpoisen t1_je53tga wrote

Always funny how they throw out the coke and heroin first, and then sheepishly offer weed when you refuse.

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kzapwn t1_je2ktvw wrote

And the rendering wasn’t even going to be on the building, it was a placeholder. Sad

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ScrollHectic t1_je2xzwz wrote

where can the rendering be viewed?

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kzapwn t1_je2zbop wrote

Idk it was mentioned in the article

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Ironboundian t1_je33bmo wrote

It can be viewed here. It’s on page 7 of the drawings. https://drive.google.com/drive/mobile/folders/1nEOdHmdin-15Ir1melldfZhZj7gltqmp/1ZYJpZ81wO_nsO8f9EXO_35-qdbYBh53Z?sort=13&direction=a

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thebruns t1_je3k9hb wrote

Wait they were going to keep that super ugly sliding covering the building?

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Brudesandwich t1_je3ob27 wrote

This is so stupid at this point with marijuana objections. Just old farts that need to move to Florida already. If anything I'm more offended by him naming it after a neighborhood in Queens and not Newark or NJ

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sprocketrevolt t1_je4rsey wrote

If that offends you, well, I have even worse news…

It appears it’s actually named for the town in Oregon where the first location opened. 🙈

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Echos_myron123 t1_je4d11r wrote

Oh heavens me oh my, a marijuana lounge in our fair city?! I do declare.

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lookingtocolor t1_je5xyc4 wrote

Why does a non tax paying entity have any input that is that heavily considered?

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madsheb OP t1_je2k1d2 wrote

"Newark’s Central Planning Board stomped on a lot of buzzes Monday night, denying an application by Wu-Tang Clan’s Raekwon to open a cannabis lounge a block from the Prudential Center arena after church elders protested and one board member complained that the rendering was offensive." (Subscriber Access Restricted)

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recnilcram t1_je636jg wrote

As someone who works in cannabis planning, this is going to court if the dispensary's lawyer is worth anything.

2 reasons cited for denial: offensive sign imagery and proximity to a church.

The applicant clarified the images were illustrative and not proposed, and that no such illicit images would be used.

The city has the ability to include a buffer from sensitive uses (e.g. churches) for cannabis uses. The fact that this was at the Planning Board and not the Zoning Board indicates that there is no buffer / they comply with it.

Therefore, the cited reasons for denial are not based in variances from the zoning code, so there is no basis for the denial.

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sprocketrevolt t1_je2zdvw wrote

I really need to see this rendering now.

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Raed-wulf t1_je3qz1x wrote

It’s a large format illustration collage of a white woman with red lips rolling a joint. It’s the kind of thing that is only sexually evocative for those who are repressed.

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Ironboundian t1_je33g72 wrote

Here is the link. Page 7 of the drawing which is the second PDF. https://drive.google.com/drive/mobile/folders/1nEOdHmdin-15Ir1melldfZhZj7gltqmp/1ZYJpZ81wO_nsO8f9EXO_35-qdbYBh53Z?sort=13&direction=a

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sprocketrevolt t1_je4so4q wrote

This is wild. As far as I can see, it’s just a Lichtenstein-like pop art image of someone rollin’ up and smoking. People are weird.

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felsonj t1_je5e9l4 wrote

What’s offensive is an officious, overbearing government that caters to the whims of a few busybodies. This is outrageous.

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