Ken and Jim at fundraising event in Red Bank

About The Coalition

Coalition members hold diverse opinions, but we all agree:

  • Arresting patients is wrong, and it must stop now.
  • Modern clinical research, centuries of experience and the impassioned personal accounts of thousands of real patients concur: Marijuana can alleviate symptoms of certain serious medical conditions, and it can do so when other drugs fail to help. 
  • Doctors should be free to recommend this medicine to promote health, and sick or injured New Jerseyans should be free to use it responsibly.
  • The safety margin for therapeutic marijuana is as wide as it can be there is no known lethal dose.

New Jersey healthcare professionals dispense potentially lethal drugs every day.  We trust them to do so very carefully, and solely to benefit their patients.  Common sense and compassion demand that doctors should control non-lethal marijuana medicine for those who truly need it.  To make this important change a reality, your voice is needed.

The New Jersey Compassionate Use Medical Marijuana Act was introduced in the State Senate in January 2005 by Senator Nicholas Scutari (D-Linden). A companion bill is pending in the Assembly, sponsored by Assemblyman Reed Gusciora (D-Princeton) and Assemblyman Michael Carroll (R-Morris Township).  

Please contact your representatives in the Assembly and Senate, and tell them what you think. It's the most important thing you can do to help the bill become law.

Also, please add your email address to the Mailing List field at left, press "subscribe" and we'll keep you posted on important dates, news and ways you can help support the New Jersey patients and families who need your help.  Thank you very much.

PS: Within two days in September 2004, both the Times of Trenton and the Press of Atlantic City announced their support for legalizing medical marijuana.

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The Coalition for Medical Marijuana – New Jersey
(CMM–NJ) was founded
in May of 2003 to support safe and legal access to medical marijuana for patients under a doctor's supervision.

 

"Health care decisions ought to be between doctors and patients, not by officials in Washington, D.C." -- Soon to be former, President George W. Bush, October 21, 2004
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NEWS FLASH: Just added: CMMNJ Video Page documenting the Coalition's work educating the public.

NEWS FLASH: Medical-Freedom.com hosted a Candlelight Vigil for Patients. CMMNJ attended. Watch Video here.

NEWS FLASH: Assembly Bill #804 (Compassionate Use Medical Marijuana Act of 2008)

NEWS FLASH: Paul Armentano (NORML) written testimony on behalf of Assembly bill 804

NEWS FLASH: Ken Wolski testified on behalf of Medical Marijuana bill on May 22, 2008

NEWS FLASH: American College of Physicians position paper endorses Medical Marijuana

NEWS FLASH: AFSCME Resolution

NEWS FLASH: CMM-NJ members Educate Public at Hamilton's Septemberfest Sept. 9, 2007

NEWS FLASH: AFSCME Endorses Medical Marijuana
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