{"id":254,"date":"2018-01-23T12:09:03","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T16:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/cannabis\/?p=254"},"modified":"2018-01-23T14:48:51","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T18:48:51","slug":"nj-governor-murphy-signs-executive-order-expanding-new-jerseys-medical-marijuana-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/cannabis\/2018\/01\/23\/nj-governor-murphy-signs-executive-order-expanding-new-jerseys-medical-marijuana-program\/","title":{"rendered":"NJ Governor Murphy Signs Executive Order Expanding New Jersey\u2019s Medical Marijuana Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a week in office, Governor Phil Murphy has taken the first step in process of bringing much needed reform to New Jersey\u2019s medical marijuana program. He signed an <a href=\"http:\/\/nj.gov\/infobank\/eo\/056murphy\/pdf\/EO-6.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Executive Order<\/a> today calling for his Commissioner of Health and the Board of Medical Examiners to report back in 60 days concerning expansion of the currently limited medical marijuana program consisting of five operating centers.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_255\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-255\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-255\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/cannabis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2018\/01\/nj_signing.jpg\" alt=\"Gov. Phil Murphy signs executive order\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/cannabis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2018\/01\/nj_signing.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/cannabis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2018\/01\/nj_signing-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-255\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Phil Murphy signs executive order<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>New Jersey\u2019s existing medical marijuana program is problematic and ineffective for a number of reasons. The current program allows for a very limited number of qualifying patient conditions, has an overly burdensome regulatory process and associated administrative fees that discourage both doctor and patient participation, has an arbitrary and unnecessary limit on the amount of dispensaries permitted to operate in the state. It also places illogical limits on the types of medical cannabis strains permitted to be sold in each dispensary.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned for more developments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a week in office, Governor Phil Murphy has taken the first step in process of bringing much needed reform to New Jersey\u2019s medical marijuana program. He signed an Executive Order today calling for his Commissioner of Health and the Board of Medical Examiners to report back in 60 days concerning expansion of the currently &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/cannabis\/2018\/01\/23\/nj-governor-murphy-signs-executive-order-expanding-new-jerseys-medical-marijuana-program\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;NJ Governor Murphy Signs Executive Order Expanding New Jersey\u2019s Medical Marijuana Program&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":295,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[228,12,4,35,176,229,126],"ppma_author":[718],"class_list":["post-254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-gov-phil-murphy","tag-medical-marijuana","tag-new","tag-new-jersey","tag-new-jersey-cannabis","tag-new-jersey-medical-marijuana","tag-paul-josephson"],"authors":[{"term_id":718,"user_id":295,"is_guest":0,"slug":"ppjosephson","display_name":"Paul P. 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