Senate Bill 119, the New Jersey Compassionate Use Medical Marijuana Act.
Thanks in part to your support the New Jersey Senate approved SB 119 on Monday, February 23, by a vote of 22-16. This vote marks a major victory for patients and advocates in New Jersey.
But this battle is only half over. Members of the New Jersey Assembly must also vote on this issue. Please take a moment today to contact your members of the state assembly and urge them to support the Assembly's companion bill, A804. The bill has been referred to the Assembly Committee on Health and Senior Services.
Please help us make New Jersey the fourteenth state to legalize the medical use of cannabis.
Coalition for Medical Marijuana - New Jersey or NORML New Jersey.
I personally do not enjoy marijauna as it tends to give me a more or less instant panic attack and always has. However the sheer number of non-violent offenders who are removed from productive roles in society and incarcerated at taxpayer expense each year is a collossal waste of resources and an unnescassary violation of citizens freedom to act according to their own consciences and to be free from frivolous state intrusion into their private lives and practice. The danger of "soft" drugs such as marijauna is no greater, and often sited as less than, those of alcohol and tabacco. The political, criminal, sociological and philosphical lessons the United States learned during disasterous alcohol prohibition experiment during the 1920s should be reason enough to recognize the folly of the existing legal status of marijuana use and possession for personal use.
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