Christie Wants Kids' Access To Medical Pot Eased
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has agreed to give chronically ill children easier access to medical marijuana.
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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has agreed to give chronically ill children easier access to medical marijuana.
Chris assesses President Obama's reaction to the violence and upheaval in Egypt, Mayor Nutter's handling of the school funding crisis and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's decision making process on medical marijuana legislation. He talks to Steve Cordasco on Finance Friday, Saturday Night Live's Jay Pharoah, and Beasley Reece from CBS 3.
More than 2,000 letters were delivered to Christie's office on behalf of Vivian Wilson, a two-year old girl from North Jersey who suffers from a rare form of epilepsy that can only be relieved by ingesting marijuana.
Electronic cigarettes were made to help people stop smoking, but some have found an alternative use for them.
New Jersey lawmakers have advanced a bill that would make it easier for children with certain medical conditions to have access to medical marijuana.
New Jersey officials have cleared a second facility to start growing medical marijuana, this one in Egg Harbor, Atlantic County. Prescriptions could start being filled there as soon as this fall.
A New Jersey Senate panel has approved a measure that would make it easier for children to have access to medical marijuana.
Three years after passage of a law designed to create medical marijuana dispensaries in New Jersey, supporters say the Christie administration has done all it can to block the measure's implementation.
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New Jersey has issued its first permit for a nonprofit group to grow medical marijuana legally.
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Medical Marijuana, legalized in New Jersey two years ago, is still unavailable in the Garden State. But it now appears one of the non-profits licensed to grow and dispense the drug has reached a deal to set up shop in Atlantic County.
The governor says he'll enforce the law as best he can but won't force any New Jersey town to host a facility.
This time, the licensee is pondering going to court to get into business.
Regulations are in place and a new administrator is about to take on the job of monitoring how Medical Marijuana is handled in New Jersey.
This past week's rejection of a medical marijuana dispensing facility in Maple Shade has left some to suggest communities asked to play host to one may not want it in their backyard.
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