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Pols take on ‘dopey’ Christie

TRENTON, NJ — New Jersey’s state Senate is considering defying Gov. Chris Christie over his plans to regulate medical marijuana more strictly than lawmakers say they envisioned when they voted to allow pot for some patients.

A vote on a resolution to declare the regulations not fulfilling the lawmakers’ intent and force the undoing of some of the Republican governor’s proposed rules is scheduled for Monday. Sen. Steve Sweeney, president of the Democrat-controlled Senate, said it has the votes.

Sweeney, a Democrat, says Christie seems to be trying to use the state’s regulatory process to undermine a law he doesn’t like.

“People who didn’t vote for medical marijuana are supporting this,” Sweeney said. “It’s about defiance of recognition of the intent of the law that was passed. Is the governor going to go back and change other laws?”