NORML-NJ Executive Director is quoted in this AP article
Christie considers changes to law.
Medical marijuana advocates concerned
By Geoff Mulvihill
Associated Press
Advocates of medical use of marijuana in New Jersey are buzzing over word that Gov. Christie is floating major changes to the way pot could be legally grown and distributed, before a system already signed into law can take effect.Rutgers University’s New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station and the New Jersey Hospital Association said Friday that the administration had contacted them in recent weeks about taking a role in producing and distributing medical marijuana.
Both groups said the talks were preliminary and legal issues would need to be worked out first, but both said they’re interested.
The idea of having the university and hospitals as the sole growers and dispensers was first reported Friday by the Newark Star-Ledger. Michael Drewniak, a spokesman for Christie, would not speak about the plans Friday other than to say many options were being considered.
He should allow those in need to either grow their own or allow a centrally chosen grower for up to a dozen patients…We’d apply pay a fee.etc..get a permit..and be allowed to growe up to say..8 plants each…more if a cooperative…The state would get money…the patients what they need,..and that’s that..this is the sensible merthod…and we all know sensible will not be the case..