New N.J. Panel To Determine Need For More Medical Marijuana Patients

TRENTON - The state Health Department has appointed a panel of physicians and other health professionals to decide whether New Jersey's medical marijuana program should admit more patients, according to a state report released Friday.

Patients and their advocates have been demanding the Christie administration create the panel for nearly as long as the six-year-old law has existed. They want to expand the number of conditions that would allow patients to get medical marijuana, such as post traumatic stress disorder, lupus, and chronic pain associated with more diseases.

But until the panel was in place, a review could not begin.

News of the panel and its members was included in the health department's annual report for the medicinal marijuana program that was posted on the state website Friday.

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