That’s right Jersey!! Let’s get it!! LOL our governor Chris Christie has decided to go ahead with our state’s medical marijuana program. Details after the jump.

Marisa Mendez

Gov. Chris Christie will implement New Jersey’s medical marijuana program after a Justice Department memo said efforts to fight cancer patients’ marijuana use would not be a good use of federal resources, according to people with knowledge of the governor’s decision.

Christie said last month he wouldn’t move forward with the program, which was passed under former Gov. Jon Corzine, until he received assurance that employees carrying out the law would not be prosecuted.

Deputy Attorney General James Cole issued a memo on June 29 to address those concerns, reiterating the message of a 2009 Justice Department memo that said the “prosecution of significant traffickers” was the department’s “core priority.”

“It is likely not an efficient use of federal resources to focus enforcement efforts on individuals with cancer or other serious illnesses who use marijuana as part of a recommended treatment regimen consistent with applicable state law, or their caregivers,” Cole wrote in the new memo.

New Jersey’s medical marijuana program is considered one of the strictest in the nation, while other states’ programs have been criticized for being too lax. The memo said large-scale “commercial cultivation, sale and distribution” of pot for “purported medical purposes” had expanded, and the federal government never intended to “shield” those types of activities from prosecution.

WSJ