Actuality Audio from the NJ Assembly health committee hearing on medical marijuana 6-4-09 and interview with New Mexico Drug Policy Alliance on the NM medical cannabis program
Chris Goldstein
Actuality Audio from the NJ Assembly health committee hearing on medical marijuana 6-4-09 and interview with New Mexico Drug Policy Alliance on the NM medical cannabis program.
On June 4th the New Jersey Assembly Health and Senior Services Committee met to consider medical marijuana legislation for the Garden State and passed the bill in committee 8-1. The Compassionate Use Medical Marijuana Act had passed a state Senate floor vote in February 22-16 and now goes to the full Assembly in the fall for what could be the final phase for the bill. Governor Corzine said he will sign ti if it reaches his desk.
New Mexico's legislation and regulation process, overseen by the state Department of Health, has been held as a new model for such programs. We interview Julie Roberts of the Drug Policy Alliance of New Mexico who were instrumental in passing the legislation there and helping implement the program.
This show contains actuality audio from the NJ hearing on June 4, 2009. It includes an ALS patient testifying in favor of the bill, my own public testimony, law enforcememt opposition and notes form the Committee Chair Assemblyman Conaway.
In the interview Ms. Roberts of discusses the process of how patients register and obtain marijuana, details of the program's non profit cultivators and rules on home cultivation.
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