New Hampshire Committee Endorses Medical Marijuana Home Growing
Amid growing momentum to legalize recreational marijuana, New Hampshire lawmakers also are considering multiple measures to expand the state’s therapeutic cannabis law.
Amid growing momentum to legalize recreational marijuana, New Hampshire lawmakers also are considering multiple measures to expand the state’s therapeutic cannabis law.
Cannabis legalization without home cultivation is not legalization, it's monopolization. New Jersey medicinal cannabis patients need home cultivation for affordable access and adults, in general, need it as a means for fairness and social justice in legalization.
All states that have legalized cannabis allow for patient medicinal cannabis home cultivation. Don't let politics leave New Jerseyans out, still criminalized and with lack of affordable access like legislators are planning.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) took marijuana reform supporters by pleasant surprise when he endorsed legalization last year after previously calling cannabis a “gateway drug” that should remain prohibited. But for advocates, there was at least one major disappointment in store when he got around to revealing the details of his plan: the proposal, unveiled as part of his budget last month, would ultimately include a ban on home cultivation of recreational marijuana.
There is something crucial missing from all the cannabis policy making going on in Trenton and it’s been missing for almost a decade. That thing is affordable access through home cultivation for medicinal cannabis patients in the state.
Every other legalized state and a majority of medically legal states allow patient/caregiver home cultivation to help ensure access to those that need it the most. Even New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo recently announced a legalization plan allowing home cultivation for medical cannabis patients.
Facing the “inevitable” prospect of being encircled by states that have legalized recreational marijuana, Gov. Gina Raimondo will propose this week that Rhode Island do the same.
“I will say, I do this with reluctance,” she told The Journal last week. “I have resisted this for the four years I’ve been governor. ... Now, however, things have changed, mainly because all of our neighbors are moving forward” with legalization.
What this means: Door-to-door cannabis delivery, like Domino’s pizza, but with strict rules and menu items like Blueberry Kush and Sour Diesel.
The fine print: Despite the tangled and often congested mess of highways in New Jersey, not everyone owns a car.
So to make the drug available to more people, the bill would allow delivery. But ordering marijuana requires a lot more paperwork than ordering two pepperoni pies.
Customers must have documentation proving that they are 21, the legal age the bill would set to buy cannabis products.
They came to the Statehouse wearing marijuana leaves on their clothes, with buttons and T-shirts and fiery testimony about the "failed drug war."
But when legislators cleared the bill to legalize weed in New Jersey — the first real step taken toward marijuana legalization? Many of the state's most ardent and longest-running activists were left wanting more.
This is starting now. Roll Call.
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Here's a link to listen along - https://www.njleg.state.nj.us/media/mp.asp?M=A/ENCODER-4&S=2018L
Discussing Senate Bill 2703 and Assembly ammendments
Committee Votes
Today we’ll see debate on a bill, S10, that finally addresses re-certification, the most pernicious, onerous regulation on the books. Should this pass, patients would re-certify annually instead of 6 times a years.
This bill’s passage saves me time and $500 a year in co-pays.
Five hundred dollars is a car payment. You know what $500 won’t get you? An ounce of cannabis at the Egg Harbor NJ dispensary where, last I checked, ounces were selling for $520, an astonishing price point, among the highest in America.
With police just feet away, Forchion sold marijuana to about 10 people outside the seat of state government. Inside the building, lawmakers did not act on legislation to allow adults to use marijuana without medical conditions, and Senate President Stephen Sweeney conceded that lawmakers would not meet his September deadline to pass a bill.
"Hey buddy, we're selling weed out here!" Forchion called out to a man walking outside the statehouse. "Twenty bucks!"
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