By Steve Elliott
Hemp News
A two-year-old New Jersey girl and other sick kids who qualify for medical marijuana are closer to getting the treatment they need after the New Jersey Assembly on Monday overwhelmingly approved changes in the regulations.
Vivian Wilson, a toddler who has a rare and severe form of epilepsy which causes multiple seizures every day, in February was issued a card qualifying her to get medical marijuana, but has faced a number of hurdles, including a ban on edible forms of cannabis, reports Jan Hefler at The Inquirer.
Lawmakers, moved by little Vivian's story, overwhelmingly passed a bill in June to reverse the ban on medibles and to make other changes making it easier for kids to get medicinal cannabis, but last month were asked to revisit the issue after Gov. Chris Christie attached specific recommendations to his veto.
A few weeks later, the New Jersey Senate approved the recommendations, and the Assembly on Monday followed suit with a 70-1 vote, with four abstentions.
The revised bill now returns to Gov. Christie's desk for his signature.