Christie agrees to ease some rules on medical marijuana for kids, but conditionally vetoes bill
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Source: The Star-Ledger
Gov. Chris Christie agreed today to make it easier for severely ill children to participate in the medical marijuana program, but said he would not go along with one provision of the measure and sent it back to the state Legislature.
The bill was inspired by the plight of 2-year-old Vivian Wilson, who has been diagnosed with a potentially lethal form of epilepsy known as Dravet syndrome, for which a rare strain of marijuana in Colorado has helped reduce symptoms for in several dozen other sick children.
In giving lawmakers much of what they wanted, Christie agreed to provisions allowing marijuana cultivators to produce more than three strains of the drug, and to sell edible products that children would be able to consume.
But he let stand a provision that requires referrals from a pediatrician registered in the program as well as from a psychiatrist; if the child's pediatrician is not registered, then a third doctor's approval is required.
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Sorry, but you can't have your anti-seizure treatment anymore.
Tough luck.
