ASSEMBLY, No. 765
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
215th LEGISLATURE
PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2012 SESSION
Sponsored by:
Assemblyman PETER J. BARNES, III
District 18 (Middlesex)
Assemblywoman ANNETTE QUIJANO
District 20 (Union)
Assemblyman REED GUSCIORA
District 15 (Hunterdon and Mercer)
Assemblyman TIMOTHY J. EUSTACE
District 38 (Bergen and Passaic)
Co-Sponsored by:
Assemblymen O'Scanlon, Coughlin, Assemblywoman Wagner, Senators Vitale and Scutari
SYNOPSIS
Requires registered qualifying patient’s authorized use of medical marijuana to be considered equivalent to use of any other prescribed medication.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As amended by the General Assembly on March 21, 2013.
An Act concerning the medical use 1[to] of1 marijuana and supplementing P.L.2009, c.307 (C.24:6I-1 et al.).
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. For the purposes of medical care, including organ transplants, a registered qualifying patient’s authorized use of marijuana in accordance with the provisions of P.L.2009, c.307 (C.24:6I-1 et al.), shall be considered equivalent to the authorized use of any other medication used at the direction of a physician, and shall not constitute the use of an illicit substance or otherwise disqualify a qualifying patient from needed medical care.
2. This act shall take effect immediately.