New Jersey has become the 14th medical marijuana state (click for larger version)
Welcome to the map, New Jersey! Now you’re truly “The Garden State”. (One question: why are New Jersey state officials working on Martin Luther King Jr. Day?)
(NJ.com) TRENTON — Gov. Jon Corzine tonight signed a measure making New Jersey the 14th state to legalize marijuana for medicinal purposes, part of a flurry of bills the Democrat penned in his last full day on the job.
The marijuana bill (S119) is expected to take effect in six months. Only patients with specific illnesses would be permitted to get a prescription: cancer, glaucoma, multiple sclerosis, HIV/AIDS, seizure disorder, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (also known as Lou Gherig’s disease), severe muscle spasms, muscular dystrophy, inflammatory bowel disease, Crohn’s disease and any terminal illness if a doctor has determined the patient will die within a year.
The law allows the state health department to include other illnesses when it writes rules implementing it.
The law has other restrictions, such as forbidding people from growing their own marijuana, ensuring it is dispensed through licensed “alternate treatment centers,” and requiring designated caretakers who retrieve the drug on behalf of someone severely ill to undergo criminal background checks.
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[...] initially approved medical marijuana legalization one year ago, but to date no rules for the new law have been [...]
We are fixing it step by step (state by state). I cannot say enough about the way people are starting to open their eyes and see that there are many more pressing issues than busting a responsible adult for simply using. Martin Luther King holiday just passed and there was a time when people would have laughed at the thought of white and black people sharing the same seat on a bus. He and countless others “had a dream”. Let this go to show that supporters of legalization can believe that one day we can experience our dream too. It wont come easy, but nothing worth having in this world does. Keep believing and fighting for it and there will be a “change we can believe in”.
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As someone that has four herniated discs in my thoracic spine and major potrusions that is going to require extensive surgery I am of course happy,
but the surgeries alone cost thousands of dollars and I am dissapointed that patients already stretched to their financial limits by having to see multiple specialists and get various imaging done are going to be forced to pay out the nose for something they could cheaply make themselves.
Thankfully I live in washington state, where it is legal to cultivate your own.
Which is great because an MRI alone costs several thousand dollars, orthopedic consults even with insurance cost over 100$ each, site specific steroid injections are very costly as well.. so again happy but a little dissapointed..
The only real answer is total legalization…………
Great!
So now the question is
……How do we go about fixing it?