NJ marijuana laws called outdated as 4/20 approaches

Stephen Cornell smokes pot twice a day to keep the pain and stiffness in his neck away.

The 45-year-old Smithville resident has been a quadriplegic since he was 6, after he fell trying to jump from one tram car to another outside Atlantic City Race Course. He’s smoked marijuana as medicine — both legally and illegally — since he was 16.

But Cornell is breaking the law.

His medical marijuana card from California doesn’t cover him in New Jersey. He’s been living back and forth between the two states since 2010 but didn’t get a card in New Jersey right away because he was apprehensive about the state's marijuana program. One reservation he has is the inability to grow and cultivate his own pot, which one can do in California.

Philadelphia decriminalized small amounts of marijuana in October. New Jersey’s

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