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"Health
care decisions ought to be between doctors and patients, not by officials
in Washington, D.C." -- President George W. Bush, October
21, 2004
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NEWS FLASH: American
College of Physicians position paper endorses Medical Marijuana
─ NEWS
FLASH: AFSCME Resolution
─ NEWS FLASH:Meet CMM-NJ members at Hamilton's Septemberfest Sept. 9, 2007
─ NEWS FLASH: AFSCME Endorses Medical Marijuana
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Read the HomeNews article on June 8 NJ Compassionate Use Act hearings
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ASA : Use of medical marijuana recommended to ease the pain
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Gubernatorial debate strikes accord on medical marijuana...!
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Melissa Etheridge: medical marijuana helped chemo
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Read Popular Science Magazine's take on marijuana medicine
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Express yourself! Get your CMM-NJ T-Shirts here
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Read the Herald News article on the human cost of criminalizing patients
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The Coalition for Medical Marijuana ─ New
Jersey was founded in May of 2003 to support safe and legal access to medical marijuana for
patients under a doctor's supervision.
Coalition members hold diverse opinions, but we all agree:
- Arresting patients is wrong, and it must stop now.
- Modern clinical research, centuries of experience and the impassioned
personal accounts of thousands of real patients concur: Marijuana can
alleviate symptoms of certain serious medical conditions, and it can do so when other
drugs fail to help.
- Doctors should be free to recommend this medicine to promote
health, and sick or injured New Jerseyans should be free to use it
responsibly.
- The safety margin for therapeutic marijuana is as wide as it can be
─ there is no known lethal dose.
New Jersey healthcare professionals dispense potentially lethal drugs every
day. We trust them to do so very carefully, and solely to benefit their
patients. Common sense and compassion demand that doctors should control
non-lethal marijuana medicine for those who truly need it. To make this important
change a reality, your voice is needed.
The New Jersey Compassionate Use Medical Marijuana Act was
introduced in the State Senate in January 2005 by Senator Nicholas Scutari (D-Linden). A companion bill is pending
in the Assembly, sponsored by Assemblyman Reed Gusciora (D-Princeton) and Assemblyman Michael Carroll (R-Morris Township).
Please contact your representatives in the
Assembly and Senate,
and tell them what you think. It's the most
important thing you can do to help the bill become law.
Also, please add your email address to the Mailing List field at left, press "subscribe" and
we'll keep you posted on important dates, news and ways you can help support the
New Jersey patients and families who need your help. Thank you very much.
PS: Within two days in September 2004, both the
Times of Trenton and the Press of Atlantic City
announced their support for legalizing medical marijuana.
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