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Governor’s big medical marijuana concept is unworkable

Governor’s big medical marijuana concept is unworkable

by Chris Goldstein 6/19/2010

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and DHSS Commissioner Dr. Poonam Alaigh have all kinds of ideas about medical marijuana. Proposed amendments, looking to be passed as last-minute legislation next week, would completely re-invent New Jersey’s medical cannabis program to their design.

Governor [...]

Anne Davis: A Mother’s Prayer to End Prohibition

A Mother’s Prayer to End Prohibition

by Anne M. Davis Esq., NORML-NJ Board of Directors 5/9/10

The video of the SWAT Team raid on the home of the Whitworth family was one of the most graphic acts of violence that I ever had the unfortunate experience of viewing.  True, the man in the home [...]

John Wilson’s Nightmare in NJ

New Jersey so often pats itself on the back as a “progressive” state. It’s not, particularly in the area of criminal justice issues, especially drug related issues. On drug policy, New jersey leads the way in draconian sentencing schemes and obsolete thinking. Somehow the weight of this system is also placed primarily on minorities as New Jersey’s prisons house mostly minorities.

The Rational vs The Emotional

State House in Trenton, NJ

11/12/2009

By Evan Nison
Ballot Initiative Coordinator

My first time at the New Jersey State House, I was in the cafeteria having a conversation about the medical marijuana testimony I had just listened to when an Assemblywoman overheard what we were talking about. She asked me about the state of the medical marijuana [...]