Sponsored by:
Senator JOSEPH F. VITALE
District 19 (Middlesex)
Senator NICHOLAS P. SCUTARI
District 22 (Middlesex, Somerset and Union)
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 reported by the Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee on March 4, 2013, with amendments.
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.