MEDICAL MARIJUANA

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This is Robert Scirocco bringing you today’s law bit.

Medical marijuana has finally come to New Jersey.

The intent is to allow doctors to prescribe marijuana to patients with serious painful conditions such as Cancer, Aids, and Muscular Dystrophy.

But the law that was just passed is in its infancy and the details still have to be worked out.

For example, only a doctor can prescribe the treatment, and the drug can only be dispensed from one of several treatment centers throughout the state that still have to be set up and licensed before this law takes effect this July.

The patient will only be allowed two ounces of the marijuana per month, and the drug cannot be used in a public place, where smoking is prohibited.

But some of the questions that are sure to surface are whether the drug can be administered in a hospital where others may obtain the benefits of the second hand smoke; or whether it will be considered discriminatory to prevent an ill employee from smoking at work if the need arises.

This is Robert Scirocco, attorney at law, Budd Lake, New Jersey bringing you today’s law bit.

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