Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em, New Jersey — as long as you’ve got a prescription.
Weed-smoking New Jersey residents sparked a joint today to celebrate the opening of the Garden State’s state’s first medical marijuana dispensary — but the card-carrying patients weren’t doing the toking.
Wilfredo Gomez, 32, and his brother, Angel — neither of whom have pot prescriptions — lit up outside the Greenleaf Compassion Center in Montclair to cheer the first bag of legal reefer doled out.
“It will give people a chance to, you know, relax,” said Gomez.
It was less of a party for the first six clients, including an injured electrician, a man with a cane and chronic pain-sufferer, all of whom declined to talk to reporters.
David McGlynn
The Greenleaf Compassion Center, the first legal medical marihuana facility in Monclair, NJ.
The clinic sells three types of medical marijuana, grown in a warehouse by owners, but no edible ganja, said owner Julio Valentin.
Inside looks like “an upscale doctor’s office,” where patients must present state-issued health cards, Valentin said.
Windows are tinted and a security guard monitors the site.
A law legalized cannabis for patients with some medical conditions — like cancer and glaucoma, among others — in New Jersey three years ago.
“The patients are very excited — they don’t have to live in the shadows anymore,” Valentin said.
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