NJ Medical Marijuana Program Case Moves to Appeals Panel

A New Jersey judge has ruled against medical marijuana patients who were seeking to have the court take over the state's legal medical marijuana program.

The case is staying alive, but it is moving to an appeals panel after a ruling Thursday.

In the lawsuit filed last year, pot patients sought to have a court force New Jersey's Health Department to do more to implement a medical marijuana program that was signed into law three years ago.

Lawyers for the pot patients say they hope parts of the case will be returned to a trial court so they can take depositions from Health Department officials about why the program has been delayed.

Only one dispensary is running.

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