Medical cannabis is still expensive and hard to get in NJ, where there are no provision for patients to grow their own.
I planned to ask Dr. Elnahal if he appreciates our sense of urgency but he brought it up before I could even pose question.
“It’s justified impatience,” Commissioner Elnahal told InsiderNJ. “It holds us accountable, makes sure we’re not losing perspective on how patients are feeling. That, to me, is very valuable. I think this program, as it had been managed over the last eight years (under Gov Christie) it was very unnecessarily restrictive. While it may hurt my feelings a bit to be trolled on Twitter sometimes it actually, it leads to action.”
Did you hear that everyone?
“We’re concerned about prices,” Dr. Elnahal added. “Prices are higher in New Jersey than in other states with medical marijuana programs, mostly because the program here hasn’t been allowed to expand appropriately.”
And most onerously, the program requires all patents to rectify with a special doctor every 30-, 60-, or 90 days. Even terminally or chronically ill patients like myself, HIV+ for 26 years. Annual certification from my primary doc should suffice as it would in other states.
Many of these pot doctors are exploiting NJ’s stupid rules to get rich. There’s a certain pot doc in south Jersey, let’s call him “Dr. Bop”, whose caseload is well over 3,300 patients. Do that math: 3300 patients pay $100 cash an average of 6 times per years and you’ve got a very rich doctor netting $1,980,000 annually.