Atlantic City, NJ’s First Recreational Pot Shop to Open on 4/20

Atlantic City Mayor Marty Small will sign the city's first recreational cannabis business license Wednesday in a ceremony that will allow the legal sale of recreational cannabis in the city.

MPXNJ will become Atlantic City’s first business to sell recreational cannabis for adult use starting Thursday, 4/20.

Get it, 4-20? Funny, dude!

Well, it was going to happen at some point, so why not?

MPXNJ, presently a medical marijuana dispensary, is located at 153 S. New York Avenue, Unit B., in the Orange Loop section of Atlantic City.

This area is now within the city's so-called "green zone," which runs from Boston Avenue to Maryland Avenue, including both sides of Atlantic and Pacific Avenues.

MPXNJ is open Thursdays from 10 AM to 8 PM.

You can expect them to be very busy on Thursday, 4/20.

The CRDA has already given MPXNJ approval to build a newer, bigger location at 121, 122, and 123 St. James Place, on what had been a vacant lot behind the current business.

If you don't get the significance of the 4/20 date, 4/20 was once a counterculture holiday to protest, at least in part, the social and legal stigmas against marijuana.

Now the counterculture slang has become the local government's little joke.

Isn't life weird?