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The Philadelphia Inquirer, 20 Dec 2012 – A Note From the State to Participants Inadvertently Showed E-Mail Addresses and Even Some Full Names. Lisa Segal prays that those who inadvertently obtained the names of New Jerseyans approved by the state to buy medical marijuana will maintain the privacy she says those seriously ill patients deserve.

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The Philadelphia Inquirer, 19 Dec 2012 – A dispensary in Essex County sold the drug to 300 people after a long fight to legalize sales. When Jay Lassiter took his first-ever toke of medical marijuana Tuesday evening, he knew it would relieve the nausea he experiences from the nine prescription drugs he consumes daily to treat HIV.

The Trentonian, 12 Dec 2012 – So I’m in the local dollar store the other day when I stumble upon a $1 marijuana test kit. Allow me to repeat this: A $1 marijuana test kit. I am glad such items as a "$1 marijuana test kit" did not exist during my teenage years. (And 20-something years, but whatever.) Because if a "$1 marijuana test kit" did exist back in 1989, I would’ve been totally busted.

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The Philadelphia Inquirer, 09 Dec 2012 – N.J.’S First Licensed Dispensary Served Only 20 Patients on Its First Day Open. For many advocates of medical marijuana, the opening of New Jersey’s first dispensary was a milestone worth celebrating, even though the door was cracked open long enough to let in only 20 patients that day.

New York Times, 07 Dec 2012 – MONTCLAIR, N.J. – They skulked in and out like criminals, shoulders hunched, heads down, declining to comment. It was the opening of New Jersey’s first and so far only medical marijuana dispensary, in downtown Montclair, on Thursday, nearly three years after the law allowing such enterprises was passed. The opening had been delayed by political battles over whether it would lead to the de facto legalization of marijuana.

The Times, 06 Dec 2012 – Marijuana may be fully legal before many New Jersey patients benefit from the medical marijuana law signed by former Gov. Jon Corzine three years ago. Last month, the voters of Colorado and Washington state made it clear that drug warriors can no longer get away with confusing the drug war’s collateral damage with a comparatively harmless plant. If the goal of marijuana prohibition is to subsidize violent drug cartels, prohibition is a success: The "drug war" distorts supply and demand dynamics so that big money grows on little trees.