The Americans for Safe Access Foundation (ASA) has prepared an annual report that involves the assessment of 40 states across the nation in relation to its medical marijuana program. New Jersey has obtained ‘C’ grade in the evaluation undertaken by the non-profit association that lobbies for cannabis patients. Meanwhile, a few patients were of the view that the state should have got a D or an F for the implementation of the program.

Though the ASA gave credit to the state for adopting the program, but the decelerated pace of execution got New Jersey poor marks, which were also the outcome of permitting very less patients’ participation in the program. The state currently has only 5,000 enrollees in the program.

The report is of 129 pages and contains the assessment of positive and negative measures taken by the state to implement the program. The report revealed that 2 million people in the US consume marijuana as part of treatment of over 50 illnesses. "New Jersey has long been considered the most dysfunctional of state dispensary programs, but has emerged with some small improvements recently. While access at dispensaries remains limited, the state now has more dispensing locations”, according to the report.

New Jersey currently has five dispensaries. Following the delay in the execution and extremely restraining rules adopted by the ex-Gov. Jon S. Corzine, the state now has two new laws for medical marijuana to ensure its availability of sick children with doctor’s approval. The state obtained less points because patients are not entitles to cultivate personal cannabis and it has very less dispensaries. Also, patients are not allowed to go out of state when in possession of marijuana.

Furthermore, several restrictions are in place for being eligible for marijuana usage and post-traumatic stress syndrome patients are not allowed to use cannabis. Cancer patients are also permitted its usage only if they display specific symptoms.