Current status of Medical Marijuana in NJ, agree or disagree?

The revised medical marijuana bill is heading back to the NJ senate where if passed will go to Governor Corzine said he would pass it, these are some of the revisions to the bill...

Only people suffering from specific diseases -- AIDS, cancer, multiple sclerosis, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and seizure disorders -- would be allowed to use the illegal drug. The original bill defined eligible users by their symptoms.

Only the registered patient may retrieve the drug from the grower, or, if the patient is unable to do so, a courier service could be arranged to deliver the pot to the patient's home. The original bill allowed a designated caregiver to retrieve the illegal drug on the patient's behalf.

No one would be allowed to grow their own pot. The original bill would have permitted patients to grow as many as six plants -- and possess up to one additional ounce of usable marijuana. Under the new version, patients could only get the drug -- no more than one ounce a month -- through a licensed nonprofit growing facility.


In my opinion California laws are too loose, but the state is seeing huge tax returns from all of the marijuana dispensers. On a MSNCB documentary, one man currently owns two medical marijuana dispensers in Oakland, CA. He paid nearly $300,000 in state taxes and $150,000 in federal in 2007. There are over 500 dispensers in the state of CA. This is huge money that states across the US could be making. With strict laws most do not have access to medical marijuana. People are going to smoke marijuana no matter what. Why not tax their "medicine" and call it a day. With a dense population here in NJ, dispensers could rack up a lot of tax money for NJ to help the soften budget crisis. In my opinion we tax citizens when they purchase alcohol, another popular "medicine" that many adults like to drink. In the end strict medical marijuana restrictions don't help the cause. Marijuana isn't a dangerous drug so it shouldn't be strictly regulated to the point where profit isn't made, yet it easily could be. Agree or Disagree about NJ proposed laws on Medical Marijuana?

Disagree.

I am for the decriminalization of marijuana period.

Why is it that everything needs to be regulated and taxed? Just like the prohibition, this 'war on drugs' is going to soon be over. It didn't work with alcohol and it isn't going to work with herbs, fungus and plants. Like you said, "People are going to smoke marijuana no matter what.".... why not just make it legal and tax the hell out of it like alcohol and tobacco? But don't call it medicinal. Especially when most people who use it use it recreationally.

is marijuana illegal, news to me.