The six legally-sanctioned growers and sellers for New Jersey's medical marijuana have just been announced by the state health department.
The New Jersey Compassionate Use Marijuana Act requires the health department to license two "alternative treatment centers each in the north, central and southern parts of the state, for a total of six. These six centers must be incorporated as nonprofit agencies, according to the state rules.
Health and Senior Services Commissioner Poonam Alaigh expects a whole lot more from the selected dispensaries than just cultivating, packaging and selling their crop, and running a commercially viable operation. She expects centers to track patient data, including which strains they are using, and how much, and the medical "outcome'' — the benefits and side affects of using medical marijuana.
