“We chose this location after a long, long search,” said Anne Davis, a Brick attorney and principal of Jersey Shore Therapeutic Health Care. “We chose this location because it’s a bank. Because it had a vault. Because it has cameras throughout the building and handicapped access — everything we’d want for our patient services center.”
Both Davis and co-owner Karen Medlin, of Marlboro, are intimately familiar with the New Jersey medical marijuana program. Davis is a registered patient, using the drug to treat symptoms of multiple sclerosis.
Medlin is a caregiver for her daughter, who is diagnosed with Rett syndrome, a neurological disorder that affects a child's ability to speak, walk, eat and breathe.
But support for the project is mixed at best. The standing-room-only crowd at the Brick town hall was largely split down the middle, neighbors dressed in blazers on the left and an army of medical marijuana patients — wearing green lanyards and stickers stating "I support medical marijuana in Brick" — on the right.
After speakers questioned Davis, rounds of applause would emanate from either side, seemingly trying to out-clap the other.