We kid, we kid. But as we reported a while back last night on his last day on the job, just like a stoner, New Jersey Governor Jim Corzine signed a law into effect making New Jersey the 14th state to legalize medical marijuana. According to reports:
The marijuana bill (S119) is expected to take effect in six months. Only patients with specific illnesses would be permitted to get a prescription: cancer, glaucoma, multiple sclerosis, HIV/AIDS, seizure disorder, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (also known as Lou Gherig’s disease), severe muscle spasms, muscular dystrophy, inflammatory bowel disease, Crohn’s disease and any terminal illness if a doctor has determined the patient will die within a year.
The law allows the state health department to include other illnesses when it writes rules implementing it.
The law has other restrictions, such as forbidding people from growing their own marijuana, ensuring it is dispensed through licensed “alternate treatment centers,” and requiring designated caretakers who retrieve the drug on behalf of someone severely ill to undergo criminal background checks.
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i live close to NJ and i think im getting this: inflammatory bowel disease
pointless article. I was hoping to find info about a virus that is going around that involves severe muscle spasms and hearing loss. But NOOO I had to come across this site which is blatantly misrepresenting this page.