Designate patient-only cultivation as the lowest enforcement priority

March 11, 2026

Senator Troy Singleton
New Jersey State Senate
District 7
Trenton, NJ

Dear Senator Singleton,

As a constituent in your district and a long-time supporter of your leadership on equity and patient access, I’m writing to thank you for your years of advocacy in support of home cultivation. Your support has been crucial for patients like me, and I’m grateful for your steadfast commitment.

Today, I write to you regarding a critical step we can take in the interim, as a bill to allow regulated home cultivation for patients remains stalled. As you know, despite cannabis being legal for purchase and recognized as medicine, patients like me still risk arrest for growing our own medicine. I echo the call we made to the Governor and Attorney General to designate patient-only cultivation as the lowest enforcement priority. In a time of New Jersey’s estimated $3 billion budget deficit, this step is both fiscally responsible and compassionate.

New Jersey is also increasingly an outlier among medical cannabis jurisdictions. The overwhelming majority of states with established medical cannabis programs permit some form of patient home cultivation under controlled conditions. Our patients should not be treated more restrictively than those in comparable medical programs across the country.

We therefore propose a narrowly tailored, interim enforcement approach focused on compassion, fiscal responsibility, and patient welfare:

• Limited solely to registered NJMCP patients in good standing;

• Cultivation confined to a secure, enclosed space with restricted access;

• A reasonable canopy limit (for example, 10’ × 10’) to ensure personal medical use only;

• No sales, diversion, or public display permitted.

This approach does not legalize unregulated activity. Rather, it simply prioritizes law-enforcement resources away from seriously ill patients cultivating modest amounts of their own medicine while the Legislature and the CRC continue their work toward statutory clarity and regulatory implementation.

Thank you, Senator, for your steadfast leadership. Your continued dedication to patient access and fiscal responsibility is a model for compassionate governance. As both a constituent and a board member of CMMNJ, I offer my time and assistance in any way that might support your work on this issue. Please don’t hesitate to reach out if I can be of service.

Sincerely,

Michael Brennan, Board Member,
Coalition for Medical Marijuana--New Jersey, Inc. 
99 E 2nd Street, #B3
Moorestown, NJ 08057
1-856-266-5226
www.cmmnj.org