State administrative data is a valuable resource for identifying New Jersey communities impacted by the opiate crisis. In this post I present some initial results from 3 years of data collected under a state Attorney General’s Office directive.

Despite the state’s progress on expansion of adult recreational use and medical cannabis, one third of New Jersey counties lack access to even a single dispensary. This post presents a spatial analysis of New Jersey’s medical cannabis dispensary focusing how far residents must travel to obtain cannabis in the state.

Using New Jersey’s official state geocoding service and related APIs just got a lot easier! This post introduces {njgeo}, a new package for R that simplifies working with New Jersey-specific spatial datasets.