The Harmony Foundation, a medical marijuana facility on Meadowlands Parkway in Secaucus, recently began harvesting its strains -- a crucial step before opening sometime this spring, according to Harmony Foundation spokeswoman Leslie Hoffman. Last July, the state issued Harmony a permit to begin growing its products.
The facility is a dispensary, meaning patients can pick up their prescriptions there.
The dispensary's progress comes among rapidly changing times for medical marijuana in New Jersey. Gov. Phil Murphy has come out as a strong marijuana advocate, recently expanding the state's medical marijuana program. The expansion will allow for thousands more people to enroll, and adds five more qualifying conditions, including anxiety, migraines, Tourette’s syndrome, chronic pain related to musculoskeletal disorders, and chronic visceral pain.
It also reduces the registration fee from $200 to $100. To date, the New Jersey medical marijuana program has around 18,574 patients.
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