{"id":84952,"date":"2025-12-31T10:33:56","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T18:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2025\/12\/31\/new-jersey-medical-marijuana-program-sees-steep-drop-in-registered-patients\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T19:45:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T03:45:57","slug":"new-jersey-medical-marijuana-program-sees-steep-drop-in-registered-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2025\/12\/31\/new-jersey-medical-marijuana-program-sees-steep-drop-in-registered-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"New Jersey Medical Marijuana Program Sees Steep Drop In Registered Patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

Most other states allow people to grow their own marijuana at home, particularly medical marijuana users, while New Jersey still fully bans it.<\/em><\/p>\n

By Sophie Nieto-Mu\u00f1oz, New Jersey Monitor<\/strong><\/p>\n

New Jersey\u2019s steep decline in medical marijuana patients continued with another 20 percent drop since the beginning of 2025.<\/p>\n

Between January and December, roughly 14,000 people let their medical marijuana registration lapse, a trend that has continued since the recreational market launched in April 2022.<\/p>\n

As of mid-December, 51,776 people are registered medical marijuana patients, according to the state Cannabis Regulatory Commission. In June 2022, that figure was nearly 130,000.<\/p>\n

Medical marijuana cardholders get some benefits.<\/p>\n

Dispensaries hold patient-only hours, give patients special parking, and let them skip ahead of recreational users in line. Patients also avoid paying cannabis taxes and can purchase up to 3 ounces of cannabis per month.<\/p>\n

Before the recreational market opened, patients were the only New Jerseyans who could legally buy marijuana.<\/p>\n

In recent years, officials have attempted to attract people back to the medical program by dropping the price of a registration card from $200 to $10 (there\u2019s also a free digital option). People must also obtain a card from doctors who qualify to write medical cannabis prescriptions for treatment of conditions like epilepsy, post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, cancer and more.<\/p>\n

The drop<\/a> in enrollment has reflected the trends other states have seen when launching adult-use weed. But most other states allow people to grow their own marijuana at home, particularly medical marijuana users, while New Jersey still fully bans it.<\/p>\n

This story was first published by New Jersey Monitor.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

The post New Jersey Medical Marijuana Program Sees Steep Drop In Registered Patients<\/a> appeared first on Marijuana Moment<\/a>.<\/p>\n


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