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.

??If medical marijuana can ease some of the suffering of a patient who??s dying from a chronic, severe, or terminal disease, state government should not stand in the way of that relief,? 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.

??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,? 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 patients?? 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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