New Jersey medicinal cannabis patients need home cultivation for affordability, accessibility, and therapy. Despite adult-use sales opening medical cannabis prices have gone up, keeping it still out of reach for many in need. Patients need home growing not just for affordability, but for availability of needed cultivars of cannabis that the alternative treatment centers (ATCs) don't have, access to FECO (full extract cannabis oil) which ATCs don't have, and access to whole plant, raw cannabinoids and plant therapy that ATCs cannot provided. New Jersey is the only state that has legalized cannabis that does not permit patients to grow their own plants and not only does New Jersey not allow it, but still considers it an indictable offense with a five year prison sentence along with other serious consequences like loss of parental rights, employment, benefits, and housing. The punishment does not fit the proposed crime and this is not how patients should be treated. Patients have been asking for an informational hearing on this for over two years and despite legalizing cannabis after New Jersey, medical cannabis patients in New York were allowed to start growing their own medicine as of October 5, 2022 and it is no longer a felony for adults. Polls show New Jersey voters support ending this prohibition, yet legislative leadership has not approved these bills for a hearing. A997/S342 permits medicinal cannabis home cultivation and A3657/S353 permits patients and adults to grow a personal number of plants at home. Please support these bills by contacting legislators and asking them and Senate President Scutari to have a hearing where patients can be heard on this important matter. Thank you.