Chris Goldstein's New Jersey Medical Marijuana Testimony 6/4/2009

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On June 4, 2009 the New Jersey Assembly Health and Senior Services Committee passed the Compassionate Use Medical Marijuana Act 8 to 1 with 2 abstentions, forwarding the bill to the full Assembly for a vote this fall. The vote showed the strong support among legislators to put in place a state regulated therapeutic cannabis program. The Senate version of the bill passed a floor vote 22-16 in February.

Chris Goldstein testified on behalf of CMM-NJ at the 6/4/09 hearing and asked that the committee pass the bill in 2009 without trying to perfect the language. Instead he said, " New Jersey should follow the example of New Mexico." That legislation allowed the NM Department of Health to decide and promulgate the rules on distribution and the registry card system rather than have it defined in the bill.

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