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Editorial Methodology & Sources

How JerseyCannabis.org content is researched, sourced, reviewed, and updated.

Cannabis policy in New Jersey moves quickly. Laws change. Tax rates adjust. Dispensaries open and close. The CRC issues new rules. Bills get introduced, amended, dropped, and reintroduced. This page documents how we keep up — and where every claim on this site comes from.

Sources

JerseyCannabis.org draws on five categories of primary sources, in order of weight:

  1. New Jersey statutes and regulations. The CREAMM Act (P.L. 2021, c. 16), N.J.A.C. 17:30 (CRC regulations), N.J.S.A. Title 24 (controlled substances), and related New Jersey statutory text. Statutes are the source of truth for what is and is not legal in New Jersey.
  2. The New Jersey Cannabis Regulatory Commission (CRC). The state agency responsible for licensing, compliance, the medical-marijuana program, and the regulatory framework. CRC publications, meeting minutes, license lists, and regulatory bulletins are primary sources for every operational claim on this site.
  3. State government publications. The New Jersey Department of the Treasury for tax revenue and fiscal data, the Office of Legislative Services for bill tracking, the New Jersey Courts for published rulings, and the New Jersey Attorney General for enforcement guidance.
  4. Peer-reviewed research and government health authorities for any health, safety, or pharmacology claims — PubMed-indexed journals, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), NIDA, NIAAA, SAMHSA, the CDC, and the FDA. We do not treat industry marketing as medical evidence.
  5. Credible journalism — outlets with institutional fact-checking processes (NJ.com, Politico NJ, NJ Spotlight News, the Star-Ledger, Bergen Record, AP, Reuters) for current-events context. Where journalism reports on a primary source, we link to the primary source whenever available.

For an additional layer of cannabis-pharmacology and harm-reduction sourcing, we draw on the broader TryCannabis.org Cannabis Education Network, which maintains a research-focused sister site (CannaScience.org) covering the underlying medical literature.

Currency — How Often Pages Are Reviewed

Every page on JerseyCannabis.org carries a “last verified” date that reflects when the lead editor most recently confirmed the content against current law and current sources. The site honors a sitewide SITE_LAST_VERIFIED constant that flows through to JSON-LD dateModified and OpenGraph article:modified_time meta tags so search engines and AI crawlers can see the freshness of the content.

Content is reviewed:

  • Annually as a backstop. Every page is reviewed at least once per year regardless of whether anything specific has changed.
  • Whenever a material change occurs. When the CRC issues a new rule, the legislature passes a cannabis bill, a published court ruling changes the law, or a tax rate is adjusted, we revise the affected pages immediately and update timestamps.
  • When readers report errors. Reader-reported corrections are investigated within a few business days; verified corrections are made promptly.

What We Do Not Do

  • We do not sell cannabis products — not flower, not edibles, not concentrate, not accessories, not memberships, not anything.
  • We do not recommend specific dispensaries or brands in exchange for money or comped product. The dispensary directory lists CRC-licensed operators regardless of any relationship.
  • We do not accept paid placements, sponsored content, or affiliate revenue from cannabis or cannabis-adjacent businesses.
  • We do not partner with dispensary operators in any commercial capacity. We will publish their license status, their address, and their hours; we will not publish their marketing copy.
  • We do not reproduce dispensary marketing copy. When we describe a brand or product, the description is written editorially based on label data, lab certificates of analysis (COAs), or independent reporting.
  • We do not generate AI content without editorial review. AI tools may be used as a research aid; the resulting content is then verified against primary sources, edited, and signed off by the lead editor before publication.

Corrections Policy

Despite our review process, errors occur. When they do:

  • Minor corrections (typos, broken links, formatting) are fixed promptly without a formal notice.
  • Factual corrections (a wrong statute, an outdated commissioner, an incorrect tax rate, a defunct dispensary) are acknowledged with a dated update note added to the affected page describing what was changed and when.
  • Significant corrections — errors that could meaningfully affect a reader’s legal or financial decisions — receive both an on-page note and an updated article:modified_time + lastReviewed JSON-LD field.

Reader corrections are filed through the contact page. Every report is logged.

Citation Style

Where pages cite specific statutes, regulations, agency publications, court rulings, or peer-reviewed studies, citations appear inline using the site’s shared render_citation() helper, which standardizes citation formatting across the network and links directly to the underlying source whenever a stable URL exists. We prefer linking to primary sources (the actual statute, the actual CRC publication, the actual court opinion) over secondary coverage.

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