Brick Says Not in Our Backyard
By Gary Beeg Jr.
BREAKING: The Brick Township Council voted a unanimous “yes” in favor of banning the recreational sale of marijuana during the council meeting on March 12.
The meeting had a large turnout for both sides of this hotly contested issue.
Proponents for the ban spoke about how much medicinal and recreational marijuana has helped them from quitting heavy drugs like heroin to combating cancer. They cited alcohol as being far more destructive to society with the numerous liquor stores, town events that include booze and even private events like weddings.
Opponents cited how passing the legalization will only add fuel to the drug problem.
They said the image of the town will change dramatically and expressed their fears of the crime rate skyrocketing. Child safety in the area of the proposed dispensary on Adamston Road and a decrease in property value were also raised in their argument.
A consistent question asked from the opponents was how the recreational usage would be policed. Verbal exchanges ensued throughout the mostly civil public discussion from both sides of the issue. Two women were removed from the meeting for arguing.
NBC 4 New York and News 12 were also at the meeting.
Amen
Great Job Brick!! ❤
On what?
Brittani Cubbedge on passing the Ban!!!
Stacey Churpakovich Collins why?
Stacey Churpakovich Collins oh ya right…. Weed is super dangerous…right… Not in our town✊!!! ??
Brittani Cubbedge yes not in our town ?
Stacey Churpakovich Collins riiight
Brittani Cubbedge yes ?
Stacey Collins not your town. Get informed on its benefits. Remember if a family member lives there n goddess forbid gets cancer nothing for them due to mayor fear monger and the dummies who think it is a gateway drug with no relaxant proof
imbecile…smh
Stacey Churpakovich Collins even though it is illegally being sold In town…??♀️but yup not in your town??♀️
I love the argument that drugs help you quit drugs. If you are using one drug to stop another, you are still are using drugs. Alcohol and marijuana only mask the problem.
If you want to be sober, get help and follow a program. It is hard, but it can be done.
Dumbass keep supporting the narcan trend though
Heather Chafatelli why the name calling? It’s allowed cuz all life is precious. ALL
Stacey Collins speak only for yourself. In a recent poll 68% of brick residents want it legal. On Election Day we will see what is banned weed or mayor mcfearmonger
Scott A Barnes the residents spoke last night.
Are you a Brick Resident? If you are why weren’t you there?
What poll are you referring to? The Shorebeat one LOL
Scott A Barnes where was this poll in brick?
Good, protect this nice family town. Now excuse me while I stop at the porn shop directly across from 2 schools before I pick up my kid on heroin.
Bobby Lyle I honest to god hate this town ?♀️
Sondra Mofohana NJ in general sucks
Bobby Lyle facts
I’m literally about to purchase a house here. I have a 3 yr old daughter? Should we not????!!!
Heather Lynn you must be new here lmao
Bobby Lyle I am and I’m serious.
Heather Lynn Brick is awful, and ocean county has a heroin epidemic.
Looking to buy our forever home. So please if Brick is this bad tell me.
Heather Lynn if you’re looking to buy a home don’t do it in NJ
Bobby Lyle our jobs are in NJ. Drugs are everywhere. Leaving nj isn’t an option right now. I keep getting mixed opinions on Brick. Some say it’s only certain parts are bad. Some say to go to Point. Some say to go to Howell. Before I drop all this money for a house and get my daughter into a school I need to know now.
Heather Lynn Brick schools sucked in my experience with money being mismanaged and the schools literally being closed off for unsafe conditions.
I’d look at houses then ask the neigbors what they think or local facebook pages.
Jackson isn’t bad, if you can deal with the other issues..
Heather Lynn no lol
Point Boro is still pretty ok. The north side of Brick is better than other parts…
Heather Lynn anywhere but New Jersey this state is so corrupt
Heather Lynn it’s called Bricktucky for a reason, stay far away from this town
To be fair the porn shops were there long before the schools.
Heather Lynn forever home in Jersey
Heather Lynn, if you like the country, try looking around the Cream Ridge and Allentown area. Drugs can still be found, but you will have a more peaceful setting and relaxed lifestyle. Cream Ridge is just outside Jackson, but a big step up for a place to raise your kids.
Heather Lynn brick schools are horrible
Heather Lynn did you ever drive to Brick on a Saturday. Traffic is another issue.
Heather Lynn Certain parts of most towns have “bad parts,” I was born and raised in Brick, albeit the north side, but I’ve never had a problem…and still live in Brick
Bobby Lyle ???
Heather Lynn move out of NJ
Bobby Lyle can you direct me to some local fb pages please?
Steve Thorn I just left Jackson. Not going back there. Lol
Yes, bc that’s going to stop it. ? I’m pretty sure you would rather bump into some one high on bud then drunk or high on opiates or worse. You should spend your time on actual issues that matter instead of some thing so miniscule like weed. I haven’t smoked since I was a kid, but that doesn’t mean I’m against it or have a problem with it. If you don’t like it then don’t do it but stop giving these ppl more time in prison than a rapist or child molester. Shit is getting ridiculous.
Christina Kersey exactly. People go to jail for weed but junkies overdosing on bathroom floors after shooting up heroin, get narcanned and sent on their merry way to rinse and repeat with no jail time. Makes absolutely no fucking sense.
Cause weed is SUCH A BAD DRUG RIGHT?!? Y’all are ignorant assholes. Marijuana has many medical benefits much better than the “pills” that big pharma pushes out. Y’all take them pills I bet smh ??♂️
Shaun Patrick Magee having concerns about legalizing weed does not make people assholes. The concerns are legit. There is two sides and a middle to everything.
Annette Crawford Hall and the side your defending has completely lied about marijuana, and only wish to keep it illegal to extort the public. Shame on you for promoting ignorance, and then to act like you’re the one in the high road is simply repugnant.
Edward O’Dea preach??
And not to mention the people sitting in prisons for non violent marijuana offenses!! It’s absolutely ridiculous and time for a change. And whether you like it or not that change IS coming to New Jersey and eventually the whole country!
Shaun Patrick Magee and no one is against medical marijuana.
This vote was about recreational use.
Who’s ignorant?
Danny Scarpati The ignorant people are anyone that doesn’t know Mayor Reid is a paid shill and believe all his reefer madness BS.
Shaun Patrick Magee brick has bigger problems…Lakewood moving in
Danny Scarpati you tell them Dan! Legalize for recreational use is crazy.
Edward O’Dea do u really think there wouldn’t be taxes on every aspect from manufacturers to distribution.
Shaun Patrick Magee hopefully yours is laced with dust.
Scott Therrien been there done that??♂️
Guess what brick ?
It’s already ALL over your town.
Only makes sense to make some tax dollars
Andy Nemec cause they spend tax dollars so appropriately
I guess they want heroin?
Jason A. McKillop weed will not stop the heroin use.
It stops new addictions from starting. Most heroin addicts start on legal pain meds and seek out dope when the prescription runs out. Marijuana can be used to treat pain instead and stop the cycle.
Sarcasm went way over her head.
Brick has a shit ton of overdose cases. I guess medical marijuana is much more dangerous though.
point pleasant yes there are drugs wherever. I chose over brick. Nice safe little town. Close knit. One of a kind. Raised three kids here through the schools. Perfect for raising a family. Little more pricey but well worth it .
Way to go, Brick. Now, lets revive some junkies with narcan so they can go home and dope up again. Dumb asses.
Kay Sie Lynn except most overdose in public places so when they die they can be brought back to life with free narcan and NOT BE ARRESTED or have ANY REPERCUSSIONS for overdosing or even having heroin on them! What a joke
are there ever actual moderates at these meetings? or just rooms totally divided in two. for god’s sake, it’s possible to be for this and still try to explain how and why this would be beneficial without sounding like cheech and chong lite.
Bunch of jerkoffs vote no I guess you rather have people taking pills then turning to dope because yall don’t want it in ocean county but I bet if all you Pricks are benefiting in your pocket it would have voted yes
Manny Napoles Exactly like all the money they are making off the methadone clinics in brick and tr that they seem to have no problem with. Idk where these people get there info from. They are stuck on the reefer madness thinking. Lol
Michael Krogman have you ever been in the shower ? ? with a man? and seen the ? soap suds run down the crack of his ass?
Michael Napoles nah Cuban. I still don’t get down like you. Haha
Fuck you all!
No funds for you.
So stupid.
Good. I don’t wanna go to bricktown for weed anyway.
But the many places to get drunk ank and kill someone behind the wheel is ok
Steve, I agree with you about drinking and driving. However I question the impairment of drivers under the influence of marijuana… Marajuana is laced purposely with many different things. When people want to get high they will find a way. Do the health benefits for certain users outway the danger of the impairment in the reckless users?
Ridiculous
Going to be legal soon.
They should fight this hard for the heroin epidemic.
Awesome news. Each town is responsible for voting yes or no for marijuana legalization. The tough part is all they have to do is walk across the street into the next town to smoke, if it’s legal there.
John DeNardis no, the whole state is legal. The towns are not deciding legality, just if they will sell it. You clearly didn’t read this “awesome” news, and a person supporting something they don’t even understand is exactly what’s wrong with this country.
John DeNardis you have bigger problems Lakewood moving in
Edward O’Dea than you for pointing that out for me that I did not clearly read the awesome news. After reading the article and the title, it clearly stated they voted yes to ban the recreational use of marijuana. There was nothing stating about the sale of it.
Asshats ??♀️ it will still be in your backyard. Can’t have weed, be we can constantly have reports of heroin ods, all the bars and liquor stores in your backyard
Brick has always been a corrupt cesspool of scum in uniform. From holding old people’s services hostage to get 100 more unnecessary gang members, to the myriad of fake traffic tickets and fines. You can still smoke all you want in brick, they just lose out on the tax revenue. Fitting for a town with a porno shop directly across the street from an elementary school.
Brick cannot overrule a state law.
They sure can
Just like some towns can choose to be dry towns with no alcohol. Towns have the right to pass laws that make state laws more restrictive. They just can’t go in the opposite direction. They couldn’t, for example decide that Coke was legal too.
They can just decide to not sell it there but it won’t be illegal to buy it somewhere else and bring it to your home…and I will be doing all my shopping for everything outside of Brick from now on
Heroine all over that town, but they can’t have legal weed. Brick sucks.
Nik Watson Where are these female heros you speak of?
I could care less if they aproved it or not. But what I do care about and what really scares me is the fact that a huge percentage of these people who do want it actually voted for Murphy simply for this knowing and not caring about how much he was going to drag NJ down. What’s going to happen when it gets worse and nobody can afford to be in NJ but people living on welfare, and illegals? You should be ashamed of yourself if you voted for him simply so you can legally smoke weed. Btw I’m not for it nor against it. Medically I am for it. Recreationally I could care Lee’s either way. But if you were one of the ones that helped sell out NJ to Murphy simply so you could legally smoke a joint. Your a complete idiot.
I dont understand how the state would allow individual counties to make a patchwork of marijuana laws its going to end up worse than the shit show of gun laws across state lines… shit in New Mexico they have sheriffs creating sanctuary 2nd amendment counties which is bullshit being that its a CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT! But I digress… I am a conservative and I 100% believe Marijuana should be legal …so in Brick,NJ u can own a flamethrower or tank but you cant smoke weed lmao hahahahaha this is typical NJ BULLSHIT COUNTING DOWN THE DAYS!
The new White Castle here will never make it now
Dave Tober for the win always
The comments by the people supporting the ban make it easier obvious that they don’t even understand what they’re supporting smh
It’s already in their backyard ?
Boycott Brick and Point Pleasant Beach. They don’t want your business.
Honestly what’s the worst thing that’s going to happen if recreational marijuana is passed? Any one know? Wow pot heads over dosing all over the streets…oh wait..that’s already happening with herion…
Makenzie Widman coming to work stoned driving my trucks.
Its physically impossible to overdose on marijuana. I think the biggest problem is gonna be people stopping at green lights lol
David Langworth oh I know it is impossible.
Lmao that is true.
Well they won’t be going to brick to buy food that’s for sure!!
Dawn Patierno Mathis honestly all the dank food in brick better watch out they are about to get more business once it becomes legal.
That’ll all change when they see how much money they will lose
No recreational use during the meeting? Too bad
Bennies
Heroin and pills are just fine tho
Brick has bigger problems like h and Lakewood moving in.
From what I read, it looks like you can still smoke it, just you can’t get it in Brick, so it may be a inconvenience to get it out of town, but you can still use it. I may start a delivery service for people that can’t get it in their town, I will bring it to you.
Billy Milko you hiring? Hahaha.
I could be onto something, this is copyrighted by Me
Billy Milko smart!
Billy Milko copyrights don’t work that way tho so get in it!
God dammit
Unfortunatly I dont think that’ll work because they are going to track how much u buy and will probably have a cap on it, like medicinal right now can only get a max of 2 oz a month. I think its gonna be like psudafed where they take ur license number and u can only buy so much in a 30 day period. That’s what I’ve read anyways
Seriously if a person can’t drive because of a disability or loss of license, if they want food they can get it delivered, need a ride, call Uber or Lyft so they should be able to get this delivered too
The dispensary’s can deliver I would think, the Pharmacy’s do
Dispensary in Massachusetts did that while they were waiting for all the red tape to finish
Well always some entrepreneur just belly’s up to the bar
Well always some entrepreneur just belly’s up to the bar
I wish the old people would just stop making choices for the rest of us. Clearly they don’t know what they are doing… or they just wanna keep harassing people over weed while everyone is allowed to drink alcohol! ?
As if it’s not already everywhere…
Yes narcan is more important ….
Shame considering medically it just got approved in this state to help in opioid addiction recovery…ocean county has plenty of opioid addiction issues…shame the plant that can help will have recreational sales banned here…in a town where Narcan is used daily to save someone from the heroin OD…
Trust me a lot of weed in backyards in brick
Shannon O’Neill
LOL
These people who are against it…. crazy crazy….
“I live in an adult community, so it doesn’t effect me, but I’m against it bc it shouldn’t be used recreationally and because it’s against the federal law” ??
HOW many parrot that it will negatively effect their children. HOW??? “Well, I have pre teen boys. Now they’ll have to worry about unsafe gummies and brownies” There is not going to be THC gummies in the candy aisle at your local Wawa…but there are daily overdoses ?
LOL ITS ALREADY THERE !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Keep selling those cancer sticks and liquor though!
Guess it’s time to stop shopping and spending any money in Brick…
If you don’t want weed that’s fine. Go pop another pill.
No tax revenue for you Brick.
They may ban sales. But you can still smoke em if you got em
Any town that bans the sale of recreational marijuana should be banned from receiving any of the funding that will come out of the tax on marijuana. You want it it out of your town, you have to forfeit the profits then too.
Yea let’s keep using narcan but ban marijuana..
Gateway drug. Enjoy your needle few years later.
Careful what you wish for, new issue will be stoned drivers etc, its cool to get high but wait til someone wacks into you and your hurt, real bright idea then
Simply based on your analysis, you are in favor of banning alcohol? By the way, if you think all pot smokers get stones then all alcohol drinkers are drunks.
Are stoned drivers a new issue???
Yet they will allow liquor stores??
Wait don’t they have a methadone clinic as well? And like 4 pharmacies?? The hypocrisy is un real in this county.
Stupid. The town’s will get $42 off every ounce sold according to the new laws so why not? Hoping Asbury Park gets it. It’s gonna be sold somewhere. Banning it from your town won’t keep it or the people out
But Heroin isn’t an ISSUE ????????????
Good for Brick Township. Now get Toms River and Seaside Heights doing the same thing
YEA AND NOW NOT TAX MONEY PROFITS FOR BRICKTOWN FROM IT EITHER
Dummies
But the bars remain open and cigarettes and opioids are available at the local drug store! Hypocrisy rules! Foolishness!
You have a larger problem coming your way…..much larger from Lakewood. This is a deterrent from what’s really going on in ocean county good people. Go to” Rise up ocean county ” and see for yourselves on a real Facebook site …..READ it carefully..
Weed a Gateway Drug? Sorry NJ Alcohol & Liquor are the Gateway Drug!