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The package labels contained false names but real addresses, prosecutors say, and the mail carrier delivered packages to a dealer in the postal station’s parking lot.

The measure signed into law Tuesday makes a number of changes, lowering barriers to access, expanding qualifying conditions, and greenlighting home delivery.

Here’s the bad news: No adult-use legalization until at least 2020. And no homegrow for patients.

Monday’s votes come days after the Senate president said a bill legalizing cannabis for adults didn’t have enough support to pass and he instead would pursue a 2020 referendum.

Social equity has been both a sticking point and selling point this year in New York and New Jersey, among other states weighing whether to allow the adult use of cannabis.

Legalizing was a campaign promise of Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy, but he’s been unable to muster enough support from fellow Democrats.

Patient advocates hope to pass a bill to reform the state’s terrible medical marijuana system, with or without adult-use legalization.

“We’ll be back at this,” Senate President Steve Sweeney said at a news conference Monday after the vote was called off. “Anybody who thinks this is dead is wrong.”

Legislative leaders are “making progress, but we have a ways to go,” Gov. Phil Murphy said this week.

The agreement marks the first time leaders have laid out the details of the long-promised plan to legalize adult-use cannabis in the Garden State.