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Governor Christie Whitman's brother is opening one of New Jersey's dispensaries.

http://www.courierpostonline.com/article/20110322/NEWS01/103220338/State-OKs-2-locations-tri-county-area-medical-marijuana-sales?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE

TRENTON — State health officials announced Monday that facilities that will grow and dispense medicinal marijuana have been approved to open this summer in Bellmawr, Manalapan, New Brunswick and three other locations.

Among the board trustees who will help oversee the six nonprofit "alternative treatment centers" is Webster B. Todd Jr., brother of former Gov. Christie Whitman. He served one term in the state Assembly more than 40 years ago and was chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board in the late 1970s.
The treatment centers, which will also be in Montclair, Secaucus and a site to be decided in Burlington County or Camden County, will be the first since the state in 2010 approved letting chronically ill patients be prescribed pot.
Advocates who pressed for the change for years, then got frustrated when Gov. Chris Christie's administration added restrictions not in the law, such as limiting the strength of the marijuana that can be grown, were optimistic.
"The most important thing is to get medicine into the hands of the sick and dying patients in New Jersey," said Roseanne Scotti, New Jersey state director of the Drug Policy Alliance. "We are glad that the ATC licenses have been awarded but we would like more details as to when and how these organizations are going to get medical marijuana to the patients who need it."
The approved centers are:
Breakwater Alternative Treatment Center Corp., based in Ocean Township, which will be locating its center in Manalapan, Monmouth County.
Compassionate Care Centers of America Foundation Inc., based in Jersey City, a collaboration between Meadowlands Hospital and the Colorado-based Daria S. Weisser Foundation, which will locate its center in New Brunswick, Middlesex County.
Compassionate Care Foundation Inc. of West Trenton, which will locate its center in Bellmawr.
Compassionate Sciences Inc., based in Sea Cliff, N.Y., which will open its center at a site in either Burlington County or Camden County.
Foundation Harmony of Cliffside Park, which will locate its center in Secaucus, Hudson County.
Greenleaf Compassion Center, which will operate its center in Montclair, Essex County.
To obtain medicinal marijuana, a patient will have to obtain a prescription from a doctor who is providing ongoing care, has registered with the state to take part in the program, and attests to a patient's debilitating medical condition.