New Jersey Health Commissioner Dr. Shereef Elnahal continued to promote the state’s medicinal marijuana program this week to perhaps its most important constituency – doctors.
The number of patients and the industry as a whole can’t grow unless medical professionals provide medical marijuana as an option to patients.
Elnahal held the first of three grand rounds lectures on Monday at the Rutgers New Jersey Medical School in Newark, talking to a standing room audience of more than 100 attendees.
Elnahal stressed the importance of trying to overcome the stigma of cannabis and ran through an hour-long PowerPoint presentation, “Giving the Green Light to Medicinal Marijuana: An Overview of NJ’s Program and Evidence,” which highlighted medical marijuana’s benefits, side effects and potential compared to other pain medicine such as opioids and benzodiazepines.