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Cathi D., Mt. Laurel, is a constituent of NJ state Assemblyman Herb Conaway. She is also Jim Miller's significant other. Cathi first emailed her assembly representative through Conaway’s legislative website in September 2019 and got no response. Then she and Jim visited his office a month later an

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Dear Senator Bucco, This is the second letter I am sending as I have had no response to the first one. I am a medical cannabis patient and supporter and I am YOUR constituent. I have extreme concern that needs your immediate attention. Many New Jersey medical cannabis patients are already chron

Dear Honorable Legislator, I am writing you with concern for access to my medicine. Jake's Law passed over a year ago and legal medical cannabis has still been extremely difficult to access. Many provisions to expand access have yet to be implemented and although the Department of Health mainta

1. 2. 3. I am a medical cannabis  supporter and I am YOUR constituent. I have extreme concern that needs  your immediate attention. 4. 5. Many New Jersey medical cannabis  patients are already chronically unable to afford an uninterrupted  supply of their recommended amount of cannabis from an "e

Initial Form Letter Sent: Saturday, March 28, 2020 9:41 PM To: Dancer, Asm. D.O. <AsmDancer@njleg.org> Subject: Patient Home Cultivation Dear Honorable Legislator, I am a medical cannabis (patient, supporter) and I am YOUR constituent. I have extreme concern that needs your immediate attention. Ma

Dear Honorable Legislators, of the 32nd district, Senator NICHOLAS J. SACCO Assemblywoman ANGELICA M. JIMENEZ Assemblyman PEDRO MEJIA I am a medical cannabis (patient, supporter) and I am YOUR constituent. I have extreme concern that needs your immediate attention. Many New Jers

Dear Honorable Legislator, I am a medical cannabis (patient, supporter) and I am YOUR constituent. I have extreme concern that needs your immediate attention. Many New Jersey medical cannabis patients are already chronically unable to afford an uninterrupted supply of their recommended amount of

'The New Jersey Legislature last year finally jump-started its medicinal cannabis program after nearly a decade of over-regulation-induced dysfunction. The Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Act (CUMCA) Jake’s Law was passed in July, promising patients expanded access to cannabis, with a vari

Jeff Oakes is discontinuing his medical treatment By Neil Schulman 'On Friday, Oceanport resident Jeffrey Oakes, advocate for medical marijuana, announced he would be discontinuing eating and medical treatment. Jeff Oakes, who has been battling cancer for years, said it had spread to his lun

The mission statement is to get a medical cannabis patient home cultivation bill introduced in the Senate Health Committee. That stand-alone bill need only be based on the provisions for patient home cultivation of medical cannabis that were passed out of the Senate Health Committee (6 to 1) as par

In the past 7 years I have been a cannabis medical patient and been purchasing from (CCF)now Botanist of EHT with no problem. Since recreational Botanist have been running out of their product (flowers) so I had no choice but to buy from Curaleaf products (Flower ). This time I purchased Orange Kush

Dear Honorable Senator Nicholas Scutari, The following letter was written prior to the COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic, but due its immediate implications on patients accessing legal medical cannabis in the state, it is important to mention it here. ‘Officials have urged people to have a two-week sup

Dear Honorable Legislator, I am a medical cannabis patient, and I am YOUR constituent. I have extreme concern that needs your immediate attention. Many New Jersey medical cannabis patients are already chronically unable to afford an uninterrupted supply of their recommended amount of cannabis from

I just came across an article that led me to this page on the New York State Worker's Compesation Boards web site. Not sure if anyone else here is aware of this. http://www.wcb.ny.gov/content/main/wclaws/Decisions/board-panel-decisions/MatterofWDFInc.jsp As someone who has open NYS workers comp case

because I desperately want to get off them and the only thing that is able to replace them is medical marijuana?! Sadly, I can't afford enough marijuana to get and stay off opioids!! Medical marijuana is an upwards of $500 an ounce and I can't even afford one ounce, let alone 3. OPIOIDS COST ONLY $

Twenty-two states allow for some form of cannabis home cultivation. Sixteen out of the nineteen states that have legalized cannabis (plus Washington, DC) have legal personal cannabis home growing provisions for adults. Six more states allow medical cannabis home growing and a number of states have

My late wife Cheryl and I were the first and only medical marijuana advocate/activists in New Jersey until the late ‘90’s. Cheryl had primary progressive multiple sclerosis, the “bad kind”. We spent the first two years of our advocacy from 1990 to 1993 dealing with the federal government’s closure

“Here we are 10 years later, 13 of those 22 are still in office and haven’t said boo. It’s well-known patients cannot afford it,” Miller said. He also explained that a significant number of patients in the program die every year in part because they cannot afford cannabis sold at dispensaries. Mi