The number of enrollees in the state’s Medical Marijuana Program has tripled since Gov. Phil Murphy took office; the current total stands at 51,000. At the same time, the number of participating physicians has doubled to 1,000.
The top five medical conditions among patients who have qualified for the program are chronic pain due to musculoskeletal disorders (28.9 percent), anxiety (23.8 percent), intractable skeletal spasticity (15.3 percent), PTSD (7.9 percent), and severe or chronic pain due to cancer or HIV (5.6 percent). Program reforms also allow patients to get treatment for opioid-use disorder in concert with medication-assisted treatment