Bill Text: NJ S1220 | 2012-2013 | Regular Session | Introduced

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

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-09 - Substituted by A765 (1R) [S1220 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2012-S1220-Introduced.html

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SENATE, No. 1220

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

215th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED JANUARY 30, 2012

 

 

Sponsored by:

Senator  JOSEPH F. VITALE

District 19 (Middlesex)

 

 

 

 

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

     As introduced.

  

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.