New Jersey's medical marijuana bill
New Jersey’s Compassionate Use Medical Marijuana Act was scheduled to be debated for an assembly health panel today. N.J. would be the 13th state to allow the use of medical marijuana, although there are other states — Michigan, Minnesota — who are also considering medical marijuana in one way or another.
The bill has bipartisan support, according to the Associated Press, which means it could be likely to pass. (New Jersey’s Coalition for Medical Marijuana notes both the Trenton Times and the Press of Atlantic City have editorialized in favor of the bill.)
The bill would only allow medical marijuana use for a “debilitating medical condition,” which means cancer, glaucoma, HIV/AIDS as well as “a chronic or debilitating disease or medical condition or its treatment that produces one or more of the following: cachexia or wasting syndrome; severe or chronic pain, severe nausea; seizures, including, but not limited to, those characteristic of epilepsy, severe and persistent muscle spasms, including, but not limited to, those characteristic of multiple sclerosis or Crohn’s disease.”
Users could grow up to six plants and have one once of “usable marijuana.”
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