Christie sabotages medical marijuana program

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In my opinion, it is this one issue, medical marijuana, that exposes the true Chris Christie more than any other -- liar, bully, incompetent, vicious misanthrope.

Disagree with me? Even conservatives like the Star-Ledger's editorial page editor, Tom Moran, recognize just how wrong Christie is by circumventing New Jersey's new medical marijuana law with his ridiculous regulations drawn from his own mean-spirited, narrow, completely misinformed view.

Christie sabotages medical marijuana program
Published: Sunday, December 19, 2010, 5:30 AM

"Lisa Segal wakes up every morning locked in a fetal position, her muscles in spasm from multiple sclerosis.

She’s 59 years old, and has tried everything. The only medicine that relaxes those muscles and settles her nausea is marijuana.

So when her supply runs out, she drives an hour from her Gloucester County home to Philadelphia, and walks the streets to buy pot, leaning on her cane. It scares her to death, but it’s better than spending her remaining years curled up in bed, in pain.

“These are not people I want to deal with,” she says. “I have nightmares that the police are going to come into my house and arrest me.”

The medical marijuana movement aims to end this official cruelty, and allow people like Segal to live in dignity. That was the idea, anyway, when the Legislature passed the law last year. It was supposed to be up and running by now.

But thanks to Gov. Chris Christie, this effort has gone terribly off track. So Segal still has to sneak to Philly for her fix, like a criminal."

While I STRONGLY disagree with Moran's depiction of medical marijuana as a "fix" this just goes further to show even the like-minded are abandoning Christie on this issue.

Assemblyman Reed Gusciora, one of the sponsors of the bill, would do very well to hold Chris Christie to the letter of the law instead of trying to pull and Obama and compromise with Christie. Trying to compromise with republicans, particularly on issues of SETTLED LAW, is nothing more than a deal with the devil.

Read the full article at this link: http://blog.nj.com/njv_tom_moran/2010/12/post_1.html