New Jersey tries to recruit doctors for medicinal marijuana program
New Jersey Health Commissioner Shereef Elnahal came to the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School to share the state’s approach to its growing medicinal marijuana program.
Elnahal says 6,000 more New Jerseyans have sought medicinal marijuana since Gov. Phil Murphy’s executive order in March added conditions to qualify. 22,000 already receive it from more than 600 doctors who recommend it. The commissioner came to recruit more doctors.
“I want this to be in physicians’ and other providers’ heads as a therapeutic option,” Elnahal said.