Medical marijuana vote scheduled in New Jersey
source: http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/warren-county/express-times/index.ssf/2010/01/medical_mariju...
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New Jersey legislators are scheduled to vote Monday on a bill that could legalize medical marijuana in New Jersey. Gov. Jon Corzine has already said he'd sign such legislation if it crossed his desk.
Those who support they bill say its passage would be a victory for people battling chronic pain and illness.
"It has been heartbreaking to see the patients who need this medication struggling and in pain waiting for the legislature to offer relief," says Meagan Johnson, policy coordinator for Drug Policy Alliance New Jersey.
"For the sake of these patients and their families, we need final approval of this bill."
Those who oppose the bill say physicians groups are worried about the reliability of scientific evidence that medical marijuana is effective.
"The Medical Society (of New Jersey, a group of 8,000 doctors) says that there is a lack of adequate and well-controlled studies on the efficacy of marijuana to treat the medical conditions that are part of the bill," Flemington, N.J.-based Drug-Free Schools Coalition Inc., Executive Director David G. Evans says in a news release.
"They state that the bill has 'glaring deficiencies' and that 'the therapeutic use of marijuana as described in this bill fails to meet our traditional understanding of medicine.'"
http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/warren-county/express-times/index.ssf/2010/01/me...
Those who support they bill say its passage would be a victory for people battling chronic pain and illness.
"It has been heartbreaking to see the patients who need this medication struggling and in pain waiting for the legislature to offer relief," says Meagan Johnson, policy coordinator for Drug Policy Alliance New Jersey.
"For the sake of these patients and their families, we need final approval of this bill."
Those who oppose the bill say physicians groups are worried about the reliability of scientific evidence that medical marijuana is effective.
"The Medical Society (of New Jersey, a group of 8,000 doctors) says that there is a lack of adequate and well-controlled studies on the efficacy of marijuana to treat the medical conditions that are part of the bill," Flemington, N.J.-based Drug-Free Schools Coalition Inc., Executive Director David G. Evans says in a news release.
"They state that the bill has 'glaring deficiencies' and that 'the therapeutic use of marijuana as described in this bill fails to meet our traditional understanding of medicine.'"
http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/warren-county/express-times/index.ssf/2010/01/me...
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sickinjersey
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thanks for the post
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sickinjersey
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sickinjersey
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right on ras
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