New Jersey’s medical marijuana program enrolment has plummeted once more in 2025 because of the state’s legalised grownup use marijuana market.
Grownup-use hashish was legalized in New Jersey early in 2021 and licensed leisure gross sales kicked off in April 2022. This had a just about instant impact on the state’s medical hashish program, which has been authorized within the state since 2019.
The medical program hit its peak in Could 2022 with 129,369 registered sufferers. Whereas retail gross sales of medical hashish will not be topic to the state’s Gross sales and Use Tax amongst different advantages of this system equivalent to increased buy limits and reductions; the migration to adult-use merchandise continues.
According to statistics from the state’s Hashish Regulatory Fee (NJ-CRC); program stats as at 15 December 2025:
- Whole sufferers: 51,776
- Caregivers: 3,388
- Medical doctors: 1,545
In 2 years since leisure legalization, solely 40% of the 2022 peak participation quantity stays.
Makes an attempt have been made to stem the circulation — together with a lot decrease registration and renewal charges for enrolled sufferers and their caregivers. Charges for bodily playing cards have been decreased to only $10 for 2 years as a substitute of $50 a yr, and free digital-only ID playing cards offered.
Apparently, a serious contributing issue to the dropoff is as a result of some sufferers can’t afford the charges being charged by some medical doctors; which might be as a lot as $200.
Nonetheless, authorized hashish stays huge enterprise in New Jersey, with $1 billion in gross sales in 2024. June 2024 to June 2025 gross sales reached simply over $1.05 billion, a 17.3% soar on the identical prior interval.
The state’s business is sustaining many companies. Simply in conditional license award totals as at December 17, 2025:
- Cultivator: 384
- Producer: 265
- Wholesaler: 16
- Distributor: 12
- Retail: 943
- Supply: 37
- Microbusinesses: 640
.. after which there’s conditional to annual conversions (470), and annual licenses (308).
Beneath the state’s medical hashish program, sufferers can buy as much as 85 grams of flower for each 30-day interval; with prescriptions stuffed at one of many state-licensed Different Remedy Facilities (ATCs) or dispensaries throughout New Jersey. To register for this system, a affected person must be first identified with a qualifying medical situation by a New Jersey healthcare practitioner registered with the Medicinal Hashish Program.
Among the many qualifying circumstances are most cancers, continual ache, inflammatory bowel illness together with Crohn’s illness and Opioid Use Dysfunction. The legislation doesn’t at present allow sufferers to develop their very own, though there have been calls to permit residence cultivation.
Beneath present settings sufferers and along with flower, tinctures, oils, edibles, vape cartridges, capsules, lozenges, and topical merchandise are additionally out there.
Additional data on New Jersey’s medicinal program can be found here.