Sunday, August 24, 2014

While patients benefit, medical marijuana limited in New Jersey


... Administered by the N.J. Department of Health, the medicinal marijuana program has enrolled 2,837 patients since it was launched. Just three alternative treatment centers are dispensing the drug, sold in bud form, cash only.


Of New Jersey’s estimated 40,000 hospice patients with fewer than six months to live, few are getting cannabis. A report issued by the state this spring found 212 terminally ill patients were enrolled in the program.


Read more: http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/breaking/while-patients-benefit-medical-marijuana-limited-in-new-jersey/article_3fe4a440-2aeb-11e4-b88b-001a4bcf887a.html

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