William J. Caruso

• “Navigating Growth and Investment in New Jersey’s Cannabis Market,” Tivity Labs (March 2025)
• "Cannabis Workshop," Chamber of Commerce Southern New Jersey (February 2025)

• "Scutari Seeks to Re-criminalize Buying Small Amounts of Cannabis from Unlicensed Dealers," POLITICOPRO (2/24/25)
• "NJ Cannabis Regulators Punt Social Equity Tax Decisions with Commission Split," POLITICOPRO (10/30/24)
• "Push to Raise State Fees on Legal Marijuana on Hold," NJ Spotlight News (10/30/24)
• "Bill Would Let People Bar Themselves from Entering Cannabis Shops," New Jersey Monitor (10/3/24)
• "NJCBA Comes Out in Full Support of Senator Ruiz’s Legislation to Prohibit the Production or Sale of Delta-8 in New Jersey," NJ Insider (6/12/23)
• "The Trump Indictment and the 2024 GOP Candidates," NEWSMAX “Wake Up America Weekend” (6/11/23)
• "NJ legal weed: What we’ve learned, one year after recreational marijuana sales began," Asbury Park Press (4/21/23)
• "Time to Disband N.J. Commission Regulating Weed," NJ.com (4/14/23)
• "Cannabis Efforts Make N.J. Model for Others: Caruso Details Changing Minds of Opponents," NJ Cannabis Insider (6/15/23)
• "New Jersey’s recreational cannabis program has smooth launch despite supply worries," MJBizDaily  (4/26/22)
• "Governor Murphy Marks Historic Opening Day of Adult-Use Recreational Cannabis Sales in New Jersey" (4/25/22)
• "Marijuana Matters," News12 The Bronx (4/20/22)
• "Scutari’s fortitude delivered a triumph for NJ," NJ.com (4/12/22)
• “Legal Marijuana Sales Expected to Start Within Weeks in New Jersey,” NY Times (4/11/22)
• "Murphy says cannabis industry will fuel N.J.’s economy as he begins 2nd term," NJ Cannabis Insider (1/26/22)
• "Some NJ Towns OK’d Marijuana Businesses, Others Said No. The Rest Have Days to Decide," NJ Spotlight News (8/20/21)
• "NJ Regulators Approve Rules for Recreational Cannabis Market," FOX5 NY News (8/19/21)
• "Finalizing The Rules For NJ’s Legal Marijuana Industry," NJ Spotlight News (7/14/21)
• "Get Ready for the Heavy Lift of Standing Up NJ’s Cannabis Industry," NJ Spotlight News (3/1/21)
• "Let the desperately ill grow their own marijuana," NJ.com  (2/10/21)
• "As NJ marijuana reform slows, racial inequity of enforcement continues, advocates say," KYW Newsradio (2/10/21)
• "Clock running down for NJ’s troubled marijuana legislation," NJ Spotlight  (1/29/21)
• "High Times: With adult use cannabis now legalized in New Jersey, the economic benefits could be far and wide," South Jersey Biz (November 2020)
• "Legal weed may help NJ’s budget, but it will take time," NJ Spotlight (11/10/20)
• "Now that New Jersey voters passed legal weed, what comes next?" KYW Newsradio (11/8/20)
• "NJ weed taxes, revenue for Black communities possible as legalization advances," Asbury Park Press (11/9/20)
• "NJ marijuana legalization ‘framework’ scheduled for hearings next week," Asbury Park Press (11/6/20)
• “N.J. Legalized Weed. Now What?” NorthJersey.com (11/3/20)
• "Marijuana Legalization in New Jersey," NJ101.5 (11/5/20)
• "Every Single NJ County Backed Marijuana. What Happens Next," (11/4/20)
• “New Jersey approves legal weed for adults in historic marijuana vote,” Philadelphia Inquirer (11/3/20)
• "New Jersey Legalizes Adult-Use Cannabis," Cannabis Business Times (11/4/20)
• "NJ approves legal marijuana: Live NJ election 2020 results," NJ101.5 (11/3/20)
• "With little worry about marijuana ballot question passing, top lawmakers busy crafting N.J. law," NJ.com (11/3/20)
• “What happens if New Jersey legalizes marijuana: Everything you need to know,” Philadelphia Inquirer (10/20/20)
• "NJ CAN 2020 Enlists Help of New Jersey Governor in Campaign’s Efforts to Support State’s Cannabis Referendum," Cannabis Business Times (10/16/20)
• Garden State: New Jersey Looks to Lead Northeast on Recreational Use,” WeedWeek (10/9/20)
• "Marijuana Legalization," Chat Box with David Cruz (10/2/20)
• "Cannabis influencers: An optimistic leader on the choppy waters of legalization," NJ.com  (9/15/20)
• "UPDATE: 5 States Voting on Cannabis Legalization This November," Cannabis Business Times (9/2/20)
• "NJ CAN 2020 Aims to Advance the Social Justice Conversation Ahead of New Jersey’s Cannabis Legalization Vote This Fall: Legalization Watch," Cannabis Business Times (5/26/20)
• "6 in 10 N.J. voters would vote yes to legalize weed, poll shows," NJ.com  (4/23/20)
• "Which South Jersey Dem Congressional Hopeful Shines on Marijuana Reform? (and who’s *really* bad?)," Insider NJ (2/26/20)
• "Target 2020," Marijuana Venture (1/27/20)
• "New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania May Coordinate a Unified Adult-Use Legalization Plan," Cannabis Business Times (10/22/19)
• “New York and New Jersey can highly attribute the legalization of medicinal marijuana to two men,” New York Daily Weed (9/16/19)
• "NJ marijuana legalization: Phil Murphy wants ‘one more shot’ at legal weed in 2019," Asbury Park Press (8/12/19)
• "Roundtable: Medical Marijuana," SJ Magazine (August 2019)
• "New York Lawmakers Push for Social Justice in Cannabis Legalization Efforts," Cannabis Business Times (3/25/19)

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