New Jersey lawmakers aim to expand medical marijuana law

Lawmakers in New Jersey are considering a bill that would give doctors discretion over which health conditions qualify for medical marijuana use.

S.B. 3484 would amend New Jersey’s 14-year-old medical marijuana law that lists more than a dozen conditions that qualify for medical marijuana use by adding the language “any other medical condition or disease for which a healthcare practitioner determines that a patient would receive palliative or therapeutic benefit from the use of medical cannabis.”

The bill, introduced Monday, was referred to the Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee.