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This report originally appeared in the March 2010 issue of DOTmed Business News
In January, former New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine signed into law a bill allowing the use of marijuana for medical purposes, shortly before he left office. New Jersey will now be the 14th such state to allow this type of use.
The "New Jersey Compassionate Use Medical Marijuana Act" states that modern medical research has determined a beneficial use for marijuana in treating or alleviating the pain or other symptoms associated with certain debilitating medical conditions. A debilitating medical condition can include glaucoma, intractable skeletal muscular spasticity, HIV, cancer, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, bowel diseases or other conditions approved. Because most people are arrested under state law, changing the law will have the practical effect of protecting seriously ill persons from arrest due to marijuana possession.
The law provides that a qualifying patient will not be arrested, prosecuted or penalized in any manner, provided that the patient possesses a registry identification card and no more than six marijuana plants and one ounce of usable marijuana. A qualifying patient may assert the medical use of marijuana as an affirmative defense to any prosecution involving marijuana. The patient cannot be a patient of a physician from another state. The law will take effect six months from the signing. The Department of Health and Senior Service will establish a registration program authorizing medical marijuana alternative treatment centers to produce marijuana for medical purposes.
