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Medical Marijuana Advocates Not Happy with Christie's Alternative Plan
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| Contributor | Jason |
| Last Edited | Jason Jul 13, 2010 04:41pm |
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| Category | General |
| Author | Brian Thompson |
| News Date | Tuesday, July 13, 2010 12:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Even before New Jersey's new medical marijuana law goes into effect, ideas are floating around the state capitol on how to change it.
One report on Monday said Governor Chris Christie's administration is considering allowing only the state's teaching hospitals to distribute it -- and Rutgers University would be the only place where it could legally be grown.
There's just one problem according to Chris Goldstein, an advocate with the Coalition for Medical Marijuana New Jersey.
"Risk," he wrote to NBCNewYork.
"New Jersey hospitals and Rutgers University have not fully examined their federal liabilities," explained Goldstein.
He added that the teaching hospitals and Rutgers would be subject to the same federal law that individuals who market medical marijuana face, and hope is never enforced (the Obama Administration, through Attorney General Eric Holder, has said it will not enforce its marijuana possession laws where individual states allow small amounts for consumption). |
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