New Jersey, Time to get busy! RIGHT NOW!

Next week, the New Jersey House of Representatives will be voting on medical cannabis. Get BUSY and contact your reps ! Just flood those reps with your message! WE NEED MMJ! Click this link and write in! :thumbsup:

http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/cg...e=ctc&state=nj

Here's an article about it!

http://www.unionleader.com/article.a...9-e64923846c7c

House to vote on medicinal marijuana

By TOM FAHEY
State House Bureau Chief
1 hour, 48 minutes ago

Concord â?? A bill allowing severely ill patients to grow and use marijuana for medicinal purposes has won a 13-7 vote in the House Health and Human Services committee.

HB 648 heads to the full House for a vote next week. Two Republicans joined the Democratic majority in voting for the bill.

The only legal way for patients to get marijuana under the bill is to be certified by a doctor, and then to grow it themselves. They are allowed to have a limit of six plants and two ounces of marijuana in their possession. Patients must be 18 or older and have no felony convictions in their past.

Thirteen other states have medical marijuana bills on the books.

Those in favor of the bill said it offers hope to those who are suffering a debilitating chronic or terminal illnesses. In many cases treatments for illnesses like cancer or HIV, create nausea that weakens patients at a time when they need strength to survive. Proponents say it eases pain and can increase appetite in ways that manufactured drugs cannot.

Opponents said the bill runs counter to federal law and represents the beginning of what will become the unwinding of state drug laws. It is opposed by law enforcement, including the New Hampshire Association of Chiefs of Police.

Rep. Roger Wells, R-Hampstead, who voted to recommend the bill, said: â??This is truly a matter of compassion. People who are suffering, at least in our state of New Hampshire, ought not to be called criminals."

Rep. Peter Batula, R-Merrimack, argued the committee acted against the best advice of national drug experts.

â??There is no right way to do the wrong thing,â?� he said.

For full coverage, see tomorrow's New Hampshire Union Leader.

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Please feel free to use studies from my list to make your point! How can anything that can generate titles like "MARIJUANA SLOWS ALZHEIMER'S DECLINE" or "Cannabis Compound May Stop Metastatic Breast Cancer" or "Chemicals in Marijuana May Fight MRSA" remain illegal? (for the studies, click the link in my sig) And you might mention that recent polls show somewhere between 65 and 95% of the American public (VOTERS!) support medical cannabis.

Well, don't just sit there. Make NJ our next MMJ state! Your email or call may be the one that sways that last needed vote!


Granny :hippy: (legal Cali MMJ user)

Here's the proper URLs-

New Jersey in the 111th Congress (1st Session)

UnionLeader.com - New Hampshire news, business and sports - House to vote on medicinal marijuana - Wednesday, Mar. 18, 2009

uh.... new Hampshire and new jersey aren't the same place....

I could swear the site I saw the link on, said New Jersey in the teaser for the link and now I can't find it!

Well, kids, I stand corrected! I think what happened is they goofed and I copied without checking and had New Jersey on my mind because of what's below. MY BAD! And then they caught their mistake. Shoot, now I gotta go around and correct things! Dang- and here I was trying to get you all to think I was perfect! ;)

But it is STILL the right advice no matter what state you are in! All of you should have your state politicians emails bookmarked!

OK, HERE'S New Jersey's news-


http://www.strausnews.com/articles/2...ger/news/9.txt

West Milford Messenger > News
Updated: March 12, 2009


State senate approves medical marijuana bill

Chronically ill New Jerseyans could alleviate their suffering legally by smoking marijuana under a bill passed last week by the state Senate.

The proposal by Sen. Nicholas Scutari, D-Linden, would allow patients with certain chronic and terminal illnesses to grow six marijuana plants or have marijuana grown for them at an authorized treatment center.

â??If medical marijuana can ease some of the suffering of a patient whoâ??s dying from a chronic, severe, or terminal disease, state government should not stand in the way of that relief,â?� Scutari said after the vote.

The 22-16 Senate vote marked the first time the bill had advanced in the Legislature. It now goes to the New Jersey Assembly, where its fate is uncertain.

State Senator Joseph Pennacchio, who represents West Milford, voted in favor of the bill.

If the proposal becomes law, New Jersey would become the 14th state to allow medical marijuana.

Advocates say medicinal marijuana has been shown to alleviate pain and nausea in patients suffering from cancer, glaucoma, multiple sclerosis, AIDS, and HIV when other drugs fail.

â??For the sake of our most vulnerable, our sick and dying patients struggling for relief, now is the time for New Jersey to join the growing list of states allowing compassionate use of medical marijuana,â?� said Roseanne Scotti of the Drug Policy Alliance, a group that supports the bill.

Critics say the bill would promote illegal drug use.

Sen. Gerald Cardinale, R-Cresskill, said he opposed it because of unanswered questions about how authorities would oversee marijuana growing inside patientsâ?? homes.

Most of the states that allow it have done so through ballot referendums. In New Jersey, the law must be changed by the Legislature.

States where medical marijuana is legal are: Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington. Only Hawaii, Vermont, Rhode Island, and New Mexico legislatures passed bills to legalize medical marijuana; the other states did so through referendum.



Scotti said in New Jersey, polls show residents support the legislation by numbers as high as 86 percent.

During a 2006 hearing on the bill, celebrity Montel Williams told New Jersey lawmakers that marijuana helps alleviate chronic knee and foot pain brought on by multiple sclerosis. Williams is a registered medical marijuana user in California.
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Dont be afraid to write assembly reps people! I did my part. Good post, NJ best take it all the way.

bump: we need a bill in to reform rockerfeller drug laws mandatory minimum sentencing for non violent marijuana smokers. Millions are wasted housing these non violent criminals & for nothing.:wtf:

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Originally Posted by frostymcfailure

bump: we need a bill in to reform rockerfeller drug laws mandatory minimum sentencing for non violent marijuana smokers. Millions are wasted housing these non violent criminals & for nothing.:wtf:

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they just did change it but they took your 4th amendment rights away with it

those in new york need to speak up call your rep and complain

Just wondering. Do any MMJ states allow medical use for anything a doctor says it would work for? For instance if it was legal for medicinal purpoes where I live I would want to use it for OCD and anxiety. Would that be possible in any of the states or is it only for cancer and other terminal illnesses?

CALIFORNIA!

There are doctors who will give a recommendation for dang near anything! Since I think cannabis should be treated like any other non-fatal medicinal herb, my only gripe is that these dudes charge for for the right to use something that should be free!

Here's something to think about- If I have a legal prescription in California, and get it, then fly to Rhode Island, do I lose the legal right to have that medicine? Do my "sleeping pills" become dangerous, illegal narcotics because I flew to R.I.?

No, of course not. The states recognize each other's prescription laws.

We need to push for reciprocity between the MMJ states! If the MMJ states recognize each other's patients (a Cali patient is being legal in R.I., and can use legally, etc) then all the MMJ states have California's liberal MMJ laws! You fly to Cali, get legal, go home and remain legal, even if your state does not give recs for your condition!

AND as a group, the MMJ states have far more "clout" than they do individually! What happened when 13 rebellious states got together in the 1770s? ;) lol

Have you bookmarked your state politician's site, so you can email them your ideas (frequently)? :D

Granny :hippy: