New Jersey’S Medical Marihuana Model Fails Miserably

[Michael Komorn]

New Jersey’s Medical Marihuana Model Fails Miserably

 

Christie’s no conservative on medical marijuana issue

 

This is the model that Jessica Cooper desires. The one that she has referred to as the “better model.”

Read this to see how this model fails, and would be a disaster for Michigan.

 

MONDAY, 11 OCTOBER 2010 06:58

BY MURRAY SABRIN

COMMENTARY

Last week the Christie administration created new rules for dispensing medical marijuana in New Jersey. Instead of allowing patients who desire to alleviate pain and other ailments relatively easy access to marijuana as the law requires, the Christie administration has reduced the number of authorized dispensaries, will require patients to be certified by a state review panel, and physicians must document that other pain remedies have been ineffective after treating a patient for at least a year. In addition, a patient must suffer from one of nine diseases to be eligible to obtain medical marijuana, among other restrictions.

If these rules stand, the Christie administration will have failed a critical litmus test. A true conservative, who is supposed to be a proponent of limited government and individual liberty, would defend unequivocally the doctor-patient relationship, which is supposed to be sacrosanct, just like the individual-clergy relationship. But in our statist society, nothing is sacrosanct except big government and the trampling of individual rights.

Free individuals should not need government permission to treat an illness with a plant. A free individual should be able to decide the proper course of treatment for any medical condition.

The Christie administration is turning its back on individuals, some of whom I first met on the campaign trail during the 1997 gubernatorial campaign. They were crying out for compassion, a change in the law that would not brand them as criminals, because they wanted to use one of nature's gifts, a plant, to alleviate their pain from MS and other conditions.

As an unabashed proponent of individual liberty I supported a change in the law in 1997 to allow New Jerseyans to use medical marijuana. My opponents, Governor Whitman and Mayor/Senator McGreevey, opposed the legalization of medical marijuana, revealing that statism is embraced by the vast majority of politicians from both major parties. Is it any wonder that our liberties have been systematically destroyed for more than a 100 years?

The Christie administration should embrace the wise words of John Stuart Mill and other champions of a free society and demonstrate he is indeed a defender of liberty.

‘‘The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.

"The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant."

The Christie administration has an opportunity to return basic freedoms to New Jerseyans. Instead, the governor apparently thinks flexing his "drug warrior" muscles may endear him to the statists in the GOP, whose support he would need if he has a desire for higher political office.

Murray Sabrin is professor of finance at Ramapo College. He was the Libertarian Party nominee for governor in 1997 and a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in 2000 and 2008. Check www.MurraySabrin.com for more of his writings

 

 

Michael A. Komorn

Attorney and Counselor

Law Office of Michael A. Komorn

3000 Town Center, Suite, 1800

Southfield, MI 48075

800-656-3557 (Toll Free)

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The most relevant radio talk show for the Michigan Medical Marijuana Community. PERIOD.

 

If you have a medical marihuana question or comment, please email them to me, or leave them on the forum for the MMMA, and I will try to answer them live on the air.

 

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PLANET GREENTREES Call-in Number: (347) 326-9626

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[Bisharoo]

New Jersey’s Medical Marihuana Model Fails Miserably

 

Christie’s no conservative on medical marijuana issue

 

This is the model that Jessica Cooper desires. The one that she has referred to as the “better model.”

Read this to see how this model fails, and would be a disaster for Michigan.

 

MONDAY, 11 OCTOBER 2010 06:58

BY MURRAY SABRIN

COMMENTARY

Last week the Christie administration created new rules for dispensing medical marijuana in New Jersey. Instead of allowing patients who desire to alleviate pain and other ailments relatively easy access to marijuana as the law requires, the Christie administration has reduced the number of authorized dispensaries, will require patients to be certified by a state review panel, and physicians must document that other pain remedies have been ineffective after treating a patient for at least a year. In addition, a patient must suffer from one of nine diseases to be eligible to obtain medical marijuana, among other restrictions.

If these rules stand, the Christie administration will have failed a critical litmus test. A true conservative, who is supposed to be a proponent of limited government and individual liberty, would defend unequivocally the doctor-patient relationship, which is supposed to be sacrosanct, just like the individual-clergy relationship. But in our statist society, nothing is sacrosanct except big government and the trampling of individual rights.

Free individuals should not need government permission to treat an illness with a plant. A free individual should be able to decide the proper course of treatment for any medical condition.

The Christie administration is turning its back on individuals, some of whom I first met on the campaign trail during the 1997 gubernatorial campaign. They were crying out for compassion, a change in the law that would not brand them as criminals, because they wanted to use one of nature's gifts, a plant, to alleviate their pain from MS and other conditions.

As an unabashed proponent of individual liberty I supported a change in the law in 1997 to allow New Jerseyans to use medical marijuana. My opponents, Governor Whitman and Mayor/Senator McGreevey, opposed the legalization of medical marijuana, revealing that statism is embraced by the vast majority of politicians from both major parties. Is it any wonder that our liberties have been systematically destroyed for more than a 100 years?

The Christie administration should embrace the wise words of John Stuart Mill and other champions of a free society and demonstrate he is indeed a defender of liberty.

‘‘The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.

"The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant."

The Christie administration has an opportunity to return basic freedoms to New Jerseyans. Instead, the governor apparently thinks flexing his "drug warrior" muscles may endear him to the statists in the GOP, whose support he would need if he has a desire for higher political office.

Murray Sabrin is professor of finance at Ramapo College. He was the Libertarian Party nominee for governor in 1997 and a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in 2000 and 2008. Check www.MurraySabrin.com for more of his writings

 

 

Michael A. Komorn

Attorney and Counselor

Law Office of Michael A. Komorn

3000 Town Center, Suite, 1800

Southfield, MI 48075

800-656-3557 (Toll Free)

248-351-2200 (Office)

248-357-2550 (Phone)

248-351-2211 (Fax)

Email: michael@komornlaw.com

Website: www.komornlaw.com

Check out our Radio show:

http://www.blogtalkr...lanetgreentrees

NEW CALL IN NUMBER: (347) 326-9626

Live Every Wednesday 8-9:30 p.m.

PLANET GREENTREES

w/ Attorney Michael Komorn

 

The most relevant radio talk show for the Michigan Medical Marijuana Community. PERIOD.

 

If you have a medical marihuana question or comment, please email them to me, or leave them on the forum for the MMMA, and I will try to answer them live on the air.

 

http://www.blogtalkr...lanetgreentrees

PLANET GREENTREES Call-in Number: (347) 326-9626

Call-in Number: (347) 326-9626

 

Typical of today when another statist (faux conservative) disguised as a conservative, supposedly standing for individual rights, shows their true colores. Everything is fine unless, in their opinion, we should decide to choose our own medicines against their personal wishes (and the wishes and plans of drug companies and government).

Where would anyone who stands for individual human rights get off thinking it is OK to rule over other humans without their consent (tyranny)?

Nice catch Michael. This Murray Sabrin understands correctly the principle of individual human rights. Awesome to see a true conservative go after these phony statists!!

[bobandtorey]

Though medical marijuana legislation was passed last year in New Jersey, not a single cannabis seed has been planted for qualifying patients. Instead, sick and dying residents are receiving a bumper crop of Jersey-style politics.The law is already the most limited in the country, with patients allowed only two ounces per month and restricted from home cultivation. Now draft regulations issued by the Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) would take the law to new extremes.

 

New Jersey's approach is almost Soviet-style: Imagine a program where just two cultivation centers grow for four to eight distribution centers that serve the entire state’s patient population. Now limit the growing to just three cannabis strains and the THC content to below 10%. 

Patients will register with the state to carry a special photo ID, but only after declaring that they are aware of the “potentially addictive qualities” of marijuana.

 

Another innovative New Jersey restriction is requiring doctors to be part of a special registry as well. 

The Alternative Treatment Centers (ATC) would be barred from selling any food or drink (no edibles). The distribution ATCs are restricted to selling only raw plant material, lozenges or topical creams.

 

On the surface, it looks like the program is being designed to fail. Using California as a whipping post, New Jersey is seeking (and seems to be getting) absolute control over the marijuana program far beyond any pharmaceutical model. 

The Christie Administration’s political interpretation of the law, some selective science and strong interest by high-dollar medical industry groups may result in the nation’s first corporate medical cannabis.

 

October was a busy month as officials reached towards the January 2011 deadline for getting the law into practice. Patients and advocates are in a timed fight for a more realistic program.

 

The sponsoring legislators, Senator Nicholas Scutari and Assemblyman Reed Gusciora, say the regulations are outside of the law’s intent. They're pushing forward resolutions in Trenton invoking the state constitution in an attempt to force a re-write.

 

Right now, New Jersey’s seriously ill and terminal residents are caught in the political crossfire of Gov. Christie’s national agenda for marijuana.

 

Worse, some NJ officials are holding up the strange draft restrictions as a new national model. Washington DC’s program has already adopted many of NJ’s limitations, like no home growing.

 

If one state Department of Health limits medical marijuana strains and THC it could indeed have an impact around the country.

http://www.celebstoner.com/201011045145/blogs/chris-goldstein/new-jersey-medipot-regs-are-a-joke.html

 

 

[Guest finallyfree09]

of course this is what cooper wants... SHE DOESNT LIKE MMJ! lol. she WANTS to make it harder to get. she WANTS to stop allowing people to use mmj if they don't have life-threatening diseases. to her life-threatening diseases and life-style-threatening diseases are 2 different things which in essence they are... but life is considerably less rewarding when you have something wrong that prevents you from say... playing catch or wresting with your son. or going out hunting with your kids (cold weather is just too much to handle).

 

cooper would probably give her right arm to stop all of us from getting mmj, but i bet you $10 to a donut she would give her right hand to re-criminalize those of us that aren't terminal. thats what the new jersey law does.

 

oakland county is the richest county in michigan which means they have more than enough money to burn a wet mule! cooper and bouchard are gonna be railing on and on and on about this for a LONG time and they have all the money in the world to keep spewing out their lies.

 

please keep postimg anything you find about new jersey mr komorn. it is a good idea to expose laws in other states that are failing... especially when they are laws that were devised by the govt and not the people. sheds a little bit of light on the "bad guys" ya know?

[jester]

New Jersey’s Medical Marihuana Model Fails Miserably

 

Christie’s no conservative on medical marijuana issue

 

This is the model that Jessica Cooper desires. The one that she has referred to as the “better model.”

Read this to see how this model fails, and would be a disaster for Michigan.

 

MONDAY, 11 OCTOBER 2010 06:58

BY MURRAY SABRIN

COMMENTARY

Last week the Christie administration created new rules for dispensing medical marijuana in New Jersey. Instead of allowing patients who desire to alleviate pain and other ailments relatively easy access to marijuana as the law requires, the Christie administration has reduced the number of authorized dispensaries, will require patients to be certified by a state review panel, and physicians must document that other pain remedies have been ineffective after treating a patient for at least a year. In addition, a patient must suffer from one of nine diseases to be eligible to obtain medical marijuana, among other restrictions.

If these rules stand, the Christie administration will have failed a critical litmus test. A true conservative, who is supposed to be a proponent of limited government and individual liberty, would defend unequivocally the doctor-patient relationship, which is supposed to be sacrosanct, just like the individual-clergy relationship. But in our statist society, nothing is sacrosanct except big government and the trampling of individual rights.

Free individuals should not need government permission to treat an illness with a plant. A free individual should be able to decide the proper course of treatment for any medical condition.

The Christie administration is turning its back on individuals, some of whom I first met on the campaign trail during the 1997 gubernatorial campaign. They were crying out for compassion, a change in the law that would not brand them as criminals, because they wanted to use one of nature's gifts, a plant, to alleviate their pain from MS and other conditions.

As an unabashed proponent of individual liberty I supported a change in the law in 1997 to allow New Jerseyans to use medical marijuana. My opponents, Governor Whitman and Mayor/Senator McGreevey, opposed the legalization of medical marijuana, revealing that statism is embraced by the vast majority of politicians from both major parties. Is it any wonder that our liberties have been systematically destroyed for more than a 100 years?

The Christie administration should embrace the wise words of John Stuart Mill and other champions of a free society and demonstrate he is indeed a defender of liberty.

‘‘The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.

"The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant."

The Christie administration has an opportunity to return basic freedoms to New Jerseyans. Instead, the governor apparently thinks flexing his "drug warrior" muscles may endear him to the statists in the GOP, whose support he would need if he has a desire for higher political office.

Murray Sabrin is professor of finance at Ramapo College. He was the Libertarian Party nominee for governor in 1997 and a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in 2000 and 2008. Check www.MurraySabrin.com for more of his writings

 

 

Michael A. Komorn

Attorney and Counselor

Law Office of Michael A. Komorn

3000 Town Center, Suite, 1800

Southfield, MI 48075

800-656-3557 (Toll Free)

248-351-2200 (Office)

248-357-2550 (Phone)

248-351-2211 (Fax)

Email: michael@komornlaw.com

Website: www.komornlaw.com

Check out our Radio show:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/planetgreentrees

NEW CALL IN NUMBER: (347) 326-9626

Live Every Wednesday 8-9:30 p.m.

PLANET GREENTREES

w/ Attorney Michael Komorn

 

The most relevant radio talk show for the Michigan Medical Marijuana Community. PERIOD.

 

If you have a medical marihuana question or comment, please email them to me, or leave them on the forum for the MMMA, and I will try to answer them live on the air.

 

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/planetgreentrees

PLANET GREENTREES Call-in Number: (347) 326-9626

Call-in Number: (347) 326-9626

 

thank you for this.

[Sativasfied]

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

-- Thomas Jefferson

[bobandtorey]

The New Jersey Health Department feels it necessary to cap the THC content of medical marijuana at 10 percent to prevent patients from getting "addicted.'' Because it contains THC, which can make you high, marijuana is classified by the DEA as a Schedule I drug, meaning it has no accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse.

 

 

 

 

Meanwhile, 100 percent pure synthetic THC, marketed under the brand name Marinol, is listed as a Schedule III drug, meaning it has a currently accepted medical use and a low to moderate potential for abuse. Marinol may be prescribed by doctors and is available at pharmacies throughout the Garden State. I would love to hear the Health Department explain the logic behind this.

 

http://www.google.com/search?q=Northern+Lights%235.&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-Address&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=ie7&rlz=

 

 

[Retta]

When do we get to start putting vicodin and oxy horror stories in the media every single day?

[pic book]

Is anyone noticing Christie targeting the Republican presidential nomination in 2016?