Dateline: Harrisburg, Pa. - New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine on Monday (1/18/2010) signed a law legalizing medical marijuana for the chronically ill.
You can now officially add New Jersey to the list of far-too-few states that have removed their head from their butt and allowed medicinal marijuana.
I've previously blogged about legalizing pot altogether (http://streffblog.blogspot.com/2009/08/medicine-and-marijuana.html) so I won't go into that more universal argument here. Suffice it to say that it takes an incredible amount of backassward thinking for governments to allow other controlled substances (e.g. oxycontin) to be prescribed (and often abused) to treat illness and disease, but not a less potent one like marijuana that has proven to be effective in treating neuropathic pain.
Makes me want to have a stiff alcoholic drink, which of course is a mind-altering substance readily available to me even without a prescription!
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