N.J Gov. Chris Christie has finally approved the provision that will allow sick children to access medical marijuana. This is after the legislators revised their original recommendation to meet the conditions he wanted added.
The governor was aware that critics will always have something negative to comment about one if his toughest decision-- making medical marijuana legal for minors. However, he was not greatly bothered about it affecting his future political plans such as running for the White House in 2016.
One of the happiest about the decision is the family of Jack Stormes, 14, who is suffering from a rare type of epilepsy called Dravet Syndrome. It was so rare that none of the medication prescribed by the specialists worked from him. His mother, Jennie, discovered though that only medical marijuana could relieve his son from the pain.
"We tried the medical marijuana and saw huge changes, a huge difference, and a lot of improvement," said Jennie in a CBS interview. "He takes in a pill or butter form, and once he does that, the seizures get shorter in duration and less frequent, and they're also less intense."
Jennie is a registered nurse and she confirmed that the pill-form medical marijuana did not make his son high. She compared the effect to an allergy medication Claritan.
"You're gonna see a normal kid," she said. "You're not gonna notice any difference. You're gonna see a kid taking allergy meds, let's say Claritan."
New Jersey has finally joined the growing list of the states that legalized medical marijuana. Washington D.C and Colorado were the first.
Stormes questioned though the amended part of the provision which requires the patient to secure approval from two doctors-- a pediatrician and a psychiatrist. She couldn't make out the sense of involving a mental illness expert.
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