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New Jersey Republican Governor-elect Plans to Support Medical Marijuana Legislation

By Aaron - January 14, 2010 at 9:21 AM
Filed under GOP Party , Issues , New Jersey , News , States , War on Drugs

According to the blog Libertarian Republican, Governor-elect Chris Christie (R) reiterated his support for legalizing the medical use of marijuana as long as the final bill contained safeguards to ensure that it did not end up encouraging the recreational use of the drug.

The legislation would also forbid patients from growing their own marijuana and using it in public, and it would regulate the drug under the strict conditions used to track the distribution of medically prescribed opiates like Oxycontin and morphine.

New Jersey is poised to become the 14th state to permit medical marijuana use.

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