In April 2022, New Jersey opened its first legal, adult-use recreational cannabis dispensary.
While smoking cannabis in public remains prohibited in places like Atlantic City, you’re free to indulge in your home or within specifically licensed or zoned areas.
In other words, almost all festivals coming to Atlantic City will be cannabis-friendly, as long as you’re discreet about your usage (when necessary) and you’re not driving or operating heavy machinery.
Some Atlantic City-based events might be more suited to cannabis than others.
However, any outing or soiree hosted here and involving food, music, art, amusement, etc., will welcome cannabis usage. Especially since Atlantic City has stated its love and acceptance of legal cannabis loud and clear.
Below, we’ll explore a list of pending events in Atlantic City that will seamlessly integrate with your cannabis consumption.
The Atlantic City Jazz Fest: September 21
There’s a reason they call cannabis joints ‘jazz cigarettes.’
As far as we’re concerned, jazz and cannabis go together like peanut butter and jam, and you can experience this harmonious combo by visiting Atlantic City this coming autumn.
Hard Rock Live at Etess Arena will host Atlantic City’s Jazz Fest, where attendees will let the smooth sounds and dulcet tones wash over them.
The featured act is Brian Culbertson, bringing with him a unique fusion of R&B, jazz, and funk that’ll knock your socks off.
Other promising acts include Johnathan Butler and Jazmin Ghent, which guarantees an eclectic, mind-expanding night of experimental jazz music.
Consider indulging in a sativa or a sativa-heavy hybrid for the occasion, as these will give you the energy to keep up and engage with the live tunes.
Atlantic City Restaurant Week: October 6-11
If jazz and cannabis are like peanut butter and jam, then food and cannabis are like two best friends attached at the hip.
We would argue that there’s no festival more suited to a cannabis experience than a food festival.
Too often, cannabis lovers partake at home, and they’re stuck with whatever’s in their fridge. That’s fine and all—we should eat what we buy. Yet, the culinary cannabis experience can offer so much more when you indulge in more extravagant and diverse options than liming yourself to what’s already in front of you.
Speaking of which, Atlantic City Restaurant Week—at the beginning of October—will give you a chance to satiate your cannabis-infused munchies.
Enjoy our lovely ocean resort town’s trademark seafood after inhaling your preferred stain of smoke and then gnashing at a joint like PJ Bucket’s Seafood, a featured festival restaurant. Conversely, after (potentially) indulging in a heady indica, consider visiting Gordon Ramsay’s Steakhouse.
Or, expand your horizons and try out a spot like Setaara Afghan French Cuisine once you’ve enjoyed a potent hybrid.
These restaurants are just the tip of the iceberg—many more will be participating. More importantly, a well-timed smoke session can enhance every restaurant you visit.
September Sip & Shop: September 14
Food and music are two critical pillars of the cannabis experience, and we’ve appropriately touched upon them with our prior suggestions.
The next pillar of the cannabis experience is arts and crafts in all shapes and forms. Enjoying a potent buzz and sketching, painting, sculpting, or merely observing helps you appreciate art in outside-the-box ways that aren’t possible without THC in your system.
So, indulge discreetly in an indica-heavy hybrid—so you’re mellowed out but still have your senses about you—and attend the September Sip & Shop on September 14.
The event is about an hour’s drive from Atlantic City at 13 Washington St, Toms River. Still, with the help of some responsibly consumed cannabis, it will prove to be worth the ride. Once there, you’ll enjoy the creative work of local craft vendors, featuring candles, apparel soaps, beauty products, handcrafted gifts, decor, crystals, and much more.
Clutch And Rival Sons Concert: September 6
While cannabis and jazz are an ideal combo, the same sentiments apply to (and multiply with) cannabis and hard rock.
As a casino-heavy region, Atlantic City is no stranger to concerts—but some are more conducive to the cannabis experience than others.
We’d argue that any fan of hard rock and cannabis will be enthralled when Clutch and Rival Sons play their sets this early September at Ovation Hall in Ocean Resort Casino. As fans of both bands know, each performance will bring grit, grime, and heaviness to their set mixed with technical proficiency and soul.
After consuming a potent sativa that gets you in the mood for some rabble-rousing rock and roll, you’ll lose yourself in each belted lyric and every struck guitar cord.
New Jersey Cannabis Conference: September 6-7
This event is a little more exclusive than the others; it’s primarily a business-to-business outing. However, we felt it was worth an honorable mention to show how welcoming New Jersey and Atlantic City are to cannabis culture.
Since 2019, the New Jersey Cannabis Conference has brought together industry pros, educators, advocates, and educators. National cannabis companies and dozens of guest speakers attend, too.
If you’re involved in the cannabis business, we suggest attending. And if you aren’t a player in the cannabis industry—but are a cannabis connoisseur or enthusiast—be thankful for this event. It means that the legal and recreational cannabis sector is here to stay and grow.
What’s more, the Atlantic City Convention Center is hosting the event, which speaks to our emergence as a cannabis leader across the state and the country as a whole.
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