nj health and services committee to hear mmj talks

[Stizz1e]

apparently the nj medical marijuana bill has been put under the control of the Health and Senior Services. They are going to hear arguments June 4th. I dont know if that means they will vote on it or just listen to a couple of invited speakers, but something is going down soon. The NORML website has more info, thats where this quote came from.

Members of the state assembly Health and Senior Services Committee are scheduled to hear testimony in favor of A 804, the New Jersey Compassionate Use Medical Marijuana Act, on Thursday, June 4, at 10am.

Just wanted to help keep any NJ smokers in the know.

[DynaGlideGuy]

Looks like you can add NJ to the List.

Read on

LIVE-NJ Assembly Committee passes Medical Marijuana!

Chris Goldstein 6/4/09

The New Jersey Assembly Health and Senior Services Committee passed the Compassionate Use Medical Marijuana Act, forwarding the bill to the full Assembly for a vote this fall.

The Senate version passed a floor vote this February.

The Assembly did offer some substitutions that made some serious changes to the bill that would not serve patients well.

I personally testified on behalf of CMM-NJ and asked that the committee pass the bill in 2009 without trying to perfect the language. Instead NJ should follow the example of New Mexico. The NM legislation allowed the NM Department of Health to decide the rules on distribution and the registry card system rather than have it defined in the legislation.

Several committee members abstained form voting. The Committee Chairman, Dr. Herb Conaway, showed that he was very well educated on all topics related to medical marijuana. The Chair himself easily countered many of the baseless opposition arguments, including from law enforcement.

Several medical marijuana patients testified before the committee including those suffering from MS, ALS and Chronic Pain

[amber smells]

way to go, Dr. Herb!!!

[Vapornator]

WOW , this is awesome news !!