Effective immediately in the state of New Jersey, doctors are now allowed to recommend to their patients to use medical marijuana as a treatment for chronic pain, anxiety, migraines, and Tourette’s syndrome.
These four conditions have been added under the first stage of a wide ranging expansion of the state’s medical marijuana program.
New Jersey governor Phil Murphy made the announcement on Tuesday at a press conference in Trenton. The governor said that patients will also be paying less to register with the program and there will be more locations to buy the medicine.
“Patients should be treated as patients, not criminals. We will be guided by science,” Murphy said. No more would patients be “failed by a system that has been prevented from delivering the compassionate care it promised nearly a decade ago.”