An otherwise superb medical marijuana expansion bill has elicited a few last-minute objections from Gov. Murphy, which everyone assumes is going to trigger another internecine pie fight with his friends in the Legislature, so let’s review what he wants before they all conspire to make life more complicated for nearly 50,000 New Jerseyans who suffer from serious maladies.

As reported by NJ Advance Media, the governor made five suggestions, all have at least some merit, and the blowback was almost immediate. Yet there is still no plausible reason why Murphy, Senate president Steve Sweeney and Assembly Speaker Craig Coughlin cannot sanctify this bill, the “Jake Honig Compassionate Use Medical Marijuana Act,” as a model for the nation. Like, soon.

One proposal is elementary: Murphy wants the Department of Health to maintain oversight of the program until 2021 rather than immediately hand it over to the Cannabis Regulatory Commission, which the Legislature had devised during the legalization debate. Even the bill’s sponsor prefers the status quo: “The medical program is better positioned in the DOH,” Sen. Joseph Vitale agreed. “And if or when adult use is approved, that program’s oversight authority should collaborate with the Health Department.” One down.

The Legislature wants to tax medicinal marijuana at 6.6 percent until 2025, and Murphy wants to eliminate the tax in 3 years. People with MS and Epilepsy already have trouble affording $320 per ounce – the state shouldn’t pick their pockets for another $21. This program is about providing vital medicine, not filling a budget hole. No other medicines are taxed, and this shouldn’t be either – and certainly not if recreational weed revenue is flowing in two or three years. Two down.

The other issues pertain to the number of cultivators, whether to allow on-site consumption (which Murphy opposes), and whether home delivery should be limited to the dispensary staff.

Home delivery must be settled: Patients need it just as they do for their other medicines. The others are negotiable. Even Ken Wolski, the director for the Coalition for Medical Marijuana of New Jersey, refers to them as “minutiae. . . . None of these should be a deal-breaker.”

Except things tend to break when these public servants get together.

It is indisputable that Gov. Murphy is the best thing to happen to Jersey’s marijuana program. He had the advantage of succeeding a governor who did his best to create obstacles that restricted its ability to help people, even children. On Murphy’s watch, the number of people served by alternative treatment centers has nearly tripled.

Maybe lawmakers regard him as an irritant. But it is predictably tedious that the Legislature gets crabby each time Murphy disrupts its sacred prose. They can do better than “The governor wants to preempt what is a thoughtful plan to expand medical marijuana in an effective and responsible way,” as Sweeney wailed last week.

Really? Maybe the governor wants to make a good bill better while there is still time. At least he’s engaging the Legislature in a discussion.

Whether there is enough time is another matter, because the mutual contempt Murphy and Sweeney have for each other can chill the heart of a penguin, and their pointless bile and vengefulness don’t exactly keep the laboratories of democracy humming (See: Marijuana, Adult Use).

Vitale can only offer this: “We’re having good-faith conversations.” So there’s that.

Coughlin, for his part, says he wants to “foster an atmosphere of cooperation” between Murphy and lawmakers, and we believe that he is in earnest. The speaker provided equipoise to the minimum wage debate and others, and he can do it again.

Meanwhile, there are 47,000 people with infirmities who need medical marijuana now, and too many must drive for an hour to get relief from chronic pain. Twice that number will like be enrolled this time next year. They’ve all waited long enough. Bring it home, already.

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