{"id":1042,"date":"2012-12-06T08:55:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-06T08:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/?p=20482"},"modified":"2012-12-06T08:55:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-06T08:55:00","slug":"new-jersey-dispensary-finally-serves-patients-medical-marijuana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/new-jersey-dispensary-finally-serves-patients-medical-marijuana\/","title":{"rendered":"New Jersey Dispensary Finally Serves Patients Medical Marijuana"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/new-jersey-dispensary-finally-serves-patients-medical-marijuana\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"276\" height=\"183\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/new-jersey3.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"new jersey\" title=\"new jersey\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-20486\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/news-and-articles\/new-jersey-dispensary-finally-serves-patients-medical-marijuana\/attachment\/new-jersey-5\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-20486\" title=\"new jersey\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/new-jersey3-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>After what has felt like a soap opera, New Jersey patients have finally now been able to legally access medical marijuana.\u00a0 The former Governor, Jim Corzine signed off on legislation permitting medical marijuana during his final days in office.\u00a0 However,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.state.nj.us\/governor\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Governor Christie<\/a> and other lawmakers have delayed the program with as many bureaucratic and administrative delays as they could muster.\u00a0 After that, local townships refused to grant zoning permits.<\/p>\n<p>Although officially legal, medical marijuana would remain in a stalemate until Montclair finally decided to consider the needs of patients and granted Greenleaf Compassion Center its zoning permit.\u00a0 On Thursday, after years of frustration and delays, Greenleaf&#8217;s doors finally opened to patients.\u00a0 At first supplies will be limited and patients will only have the option to purchase in half ounce increments.\u00a0 Greenleaf president Joseph Stevens expects supply to be a non issue soon and recently said &#8220;everything&#8217;s been going great&#8221;at the center.<\/p>\n<p>New Jersey has some of the strictest rules in the nation for patients to receive a medical marijuana prescription.\u00a0 So far there are only 300 patients registered.\u00a0 However, the program will grow and more patients will be granted relief as time goes on and more conditions are recognized in the program.\u00a0 Additionally, there may soon be six dispensaries in the Garden Staten as five other collectives have received approval.\u00a0 New Jersey is one of the most populous states in the nation.\u00a0 We believe and hope they will show other states in the northeast and east coast how to run medical marijuana dispensaries.\u00a0 We all know who New Jersey&#8217;s big brother and it may only be a matter of time now before the Big Apple approves medical marijuana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"276\" height=\"183\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/new-jersey3.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"new jersey\" title=\"new jersey\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-20486\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/news-and-articles\/new-jersey-dispensary-finally-serves-patients-medical-marijuana\/attachment\/new-jersey-5\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-20486\" title=\"new jersey\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/new-jersey3-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>After what has felt like a soap opera, New Jersey patients have finally now been able to legally access medical marijuana.\u00a0 The former Governor, Jim Corzine signed off on legislation permitting medical marijuana during his final days in office.\u00a0 However,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.state.nj.us\/governor\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Governor Christie<\/a> and other lawmakers have delayed the program with as many bureaucratic and administrative delays as they could muster.\u00a0 After that, local townships refused to grant zoning permits.<\/p>\n<p>Although officially legal, medical marijuana would remain in a stalemate until Montclair finally decided to consider the needs of patients and granted Greenleaf Compassion Center its zoning permit.\u00a0 On Thursday, after years of frustration and delays, Greenleaf&#8217;s doors finally opened to patients.\u00a0 At first supplies will be limited and patients will only have the option to purchase in half ounce increments.\u00a0 Greenleaf president Joseph Stevens expects supply to be a non issue soon and recently said &#8220;everything&#8217;s been going great&#8221;at the center.<\/p>\n<p>New Jersey has some of the strictest rules in the nation for patients to receive a medical marijuana prescription.\u00a0 So far there are only 300 patients registered.\u00a0 However, the program will grow and more patients will be granted relief as time goes on and more conditions are recognized in the program.\u00a0 Additionally, there may soon be six dispensaries in the Garden Staten as five other collectives have received approval.\u00a0 New Jersey is one of the most populous states in the nation.\u00a0 We believe and hope they will show other states in the northeast and east coast how to run medical marijuana dispensaries.\u00a0 We all know who New Jersey&#8217;s big brother and it may only be a matter of time now before the Big Apple approves medical marijuana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[52,933,981,66,75,337,56,9,78,69,50,51,70,1,3,61],"tags":[2632,3504,3552,2645,2653,2915,2636,2656,2648,2630,2631,5,6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}