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Meeting Agenda for November 11, 2025 at 7 pm
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Agenda: New Jersey Issues:
How will NJ’s next Governor deal with drug policy reform issues?
Continuing cannabis reform, access to psychedelics, and pursuit of failed War
on Drugs?
CannaCoverage: Reasons to Offer Medical Cannabis as an Employee Benefit; NABIP: National Association of Benefits and Insurance Professionals programs.
S4779:
transfers cannabis regulations
from the CRC to a new Division of State Cannabis Oversight, Regulation, and
Enforcement (SCORE) in the Dept. of Law and Public Safety, to bring enforcement
actions against unlicensed cannabis businesses.
CMMNJ tabled at Community Fest 2025 at The College of New Jersey.
Sign the Petition: Legalize Medical Home Cultivation for NJ Patients Now!
NJ Senator Scutari’s bill S4154, “Establishes crime of
selling or purchasing marijuana from unlicensed businesses." Sign NORML's
S4154 action alert.
Let Advanced Practice Nurses Recommend Medical Cannabis: NORML
petition
Next meeting: December 11, 2025.
Register to speak
here
by 12/9/25 at 5 p.m. Submit comments in
writing by
12/12/25 at 5 p.m.
Watch on Zoom or on
YouTube
Full recordings,
slides of public meetings, and upcoming meeting dates are available on the CRC public meeting page.
CRC: Your guide to
cannabis consumption areas
Medicinal Cannabis
Program Participation (as of 10/15/2025)
- Total
patients: 54,924
- Caregivers:
3,505
- Doctors:
1,552
ASA: Why Home Cultivation Matters for
Patients and Federal Policy Advisory Group summary
(PowerPoint). More about the Federal
Government Shutdown. ASA's New Action Group: United
for National Medical Cannabis.
Ireland’s Vera Twomey: Medicinal
cannabis must be administered by staff in healthcare institutions and become
part of the patient's healthcare record.
DEA Promotes Ad Blaming Marijuana Laced With Fentanyl For OD Deaths
Federal Study: Access To Legal Marijuana Shops Leads To Reduced Heavy Alcohol Use
Groundbreaking Mushroom Study Delivers New Hope For Epilepsy
Society of Cannabis Clinicians (SCC) 3rd Annual Medical Cannabis Conference,
Metropolitan State University of Denver, October 24– October 25.
PhilaDelic, UPENN psychedelic conference, Jordan Medical Education Center, 3400 Civic
Center Blvd., Philadelphia, PA 19104, 11/22/25, 9-6 pm. Free virtual tickets.
NJ League of Municipalities, Annual Conference, Atlantic City, 11/18-20
CMMNJ’s ongoing goals:
Insurance bills: Press
release: NJSNA supports insurance for medicinal cannabis
· S1944: Costs
of medical cannabis to be reimbursed by Catastrophic Illness in Children
Relief Fund, PAAD, Senior Gold and VCCO.
·
S1943/A4371:
Requires workers’
compensation, PIP, and health insurance coverage.
·
A898/ S2828: Subsidize medical cannabis in Medicaid or NJ Family
Care.
Home cultivation bills: Website: https://www.letpatientsgrownj.com/
·
S1393/A846: Authorizes home cultivation of medical cannabis.
·
S1985/A3867: Legalizes six plants for personal use and 10 plants
for medical
Petition: End the Blockade on NJ Senate bill S1393; no committee hearing scheduled yet. Sign NORML’s S1393 Action Alert.
NJ patients in hospitals, nursing homes, state institutions, group homes and hospice need access to medical cannabis. Patient outcomes would improve, and health care costs would be reduced with access to medical cannabis.
In 2023 CMMNJ endorsed
psychedelic research and the safe use of psychedelics. A3852/S2283 "Psilocybin Behavioral Health Access and Services
Act."
2025
Psychedelic Community Survey, a research project
for the psychedelic community, by the psychedelic
community.
Treasury report: $8,888.
Fundraising ideas
are always welcome. CMMNJ has thousands of hemp wristbands. Can your
organization use them? See the photo below.
Make a
tax-deductible donation via PayPal to info@cmmnj.org, or send a check to: CMMNJ, 219 Woodside
Ave., Trenton, NJ 08618
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CMMNJ website: https://cmmnj.org/
CMMNJ Awards:
2021: NJ
Governor's Jefferson Award in the Volunteer Group category;
2023: NJ State
Governor's Volunteerism Award in the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Champion for
Justice Category "for extraordinary service to your community;"
2023: Ken
Wolski
won a Lifetime
Achievement award;
2023: NJ Senate
and Assembly Joint
Legislative Resolution affirmed CMMNJ's importance as a "catalyst
for the legalization of both medical and recreational marijuana in the
State" and paid “tribute to all who have contributed to its success and
renown.”
CMMNJ, a 501(c)(3)
public charity, is a non-profit educational organization.
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