“It’s great to see a government here in New Jersey that understands the need for reforming our marijuana laws and medical marijuana program. This will help patients that need it most in the short term as the legislature continues to sort through and craft the adult-use legalization law,” New Jersey NORML Executive Director Evan Nison told Cannabis Now.
NORML’s national leadership concurred with their state affiliate.
“Governor Murphy’s expansion of his state’s medical marijuana program will immediately bring relief to thousands of patients across New Jersey who were locked out of the abysmal, designed-to-fail current system,” NORML Executive Director Erik Altieri told Cannabis Now.
Alteri went on to note that expanding the conditions list, abandoning a required doctor registry and reducing medical costs are all common sense reforms that were long overdue and “were never seriously entertained while the state suffered under the leadership of reefer-mad Chris Christie.”