Bill Text: NJ A765 | 2012-2013 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Requires registered qualifying patient's authorized use of medical marijuana to be considered equivalent to use of any other prescribed medication.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-1)

Status: (Enrolled - Dead) 2014-01-21 - Pocket Veto - Bills not Acted on by Governor-end of Session [A765 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2012-A765-Introduced.html

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)

 

 

 

 

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

     Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel

  


An Act. concerning the medical use to 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.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill supplements the "New Jersey Compassionate Use Medical Marijuana Act" (C.24:6I-1 et al.) to provide that a registered qualifying patient's authorized use of medical marijuana is to be considered equivalent to using any other prescribed medication and not the use of an illicit substance that would otherwise disqualify a qualifying patient from needed medical care, including organ transplantation.

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