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New Jersey Cannabis Commission flags lab anomalies as sales rise; licensing totals top 3,000

New Jersey Cannabis Regulatory Commission · August 7, 2025
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Acting Executive Director Chris Riggs reported the commission surpassed 3,000 portal submissions and detailed rising sales and harvesting volumes while flagging an investigation into possible inflated THCA and unusual mold test distributions in laboratory results.

Acting Executive Director Chris Riggs told the Cannabis Regulatory Commission on July 30 that more than 3,000 applications have been submitted through the agency portal and that 2,300 have been approved, with additional applications at varying stages of review. "We finally hit that 3,000 mark," Riggs said during the executive‑director report.

Riggs said the commission recently approved 1,629 conditional recreational licenses, 451 conditional annual conversions, 279 annual licenses and 84 expanded alternative treatment centers, producing roughly 357 total…

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