Pubdate: Tue, 02 Oct 2012 Source: Burlington County Times (NJ) Copyright: 2012 Calkins Newspapers. Inc. Contact: https://phillyburbs-dot-com.bloxcms-ny1.com/contact/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/2128 Author: Eric Hafner ADMINISTRATION MUST PUT PATIENTS FIRST This January will mark three years since New Jersey passed a medical marijuana law. But to this day, not a single patient has received the legal protections intended by the law or safe access to medical cannabis. It's time for Gov. Chris Christie to stop making excuses and start working to ensure that New Jersey's medical marijuana program becomes operational. The latest round of permit issues, again delaying the opening of the Greenleaf Compassion Center in Montclair (which hopes to be the state's first legal provider of the medicine), is nothing more than smoke and mirrors from an administration caught in the draconian ideology of reefer madness. Patients must be put before politics. Eric Hafner Toms River - --- MAP posted-by: Matt