Replay: Medical Marijuana Forum on Arkansas Today
By: KARK 4 News
Updated: November 1, 2012
KARK 4 hosted a forum on Arkansas Today at noon today looking into the Medical Marijuana issue on the November ballot.
Representatives on both sides of the issue were invited to our studio to argue their case for or against the measure.
Click the video box to watch the replay.
Representatives on both sides of the issue were invited to our studio to argue their case for or against the measure.
Click the video box to watch the replay.
Comments
How much legitimate science would you like? The fact is the AMA as well as the American College of Physicians both say marijuana should be reduced to a Schedule 2 controlled substance so it can be researched. In 1937, the AMA went on record in Congressional testimony and opposed the Marijuana Tax Act, which was the first Act to try and outlaw marijuana...btw, the Marijuana Tax Act was held to be an unconstitutional law in 1969. The DEA does NOT allow scientific studies to be conducted on marijuana. In all of the tests done by the federal government, performed by NIDA or ones that met the FDA approval, ALL of them showed the evidence that marijuana had scientifically valid medical benefits.
The fact is, up until the creation of the CSA, doctors could prescribe marijuana. Cannabis was included in the US Pharmacopeia until it became illegal to prescribe as a Schedule 1 controlled substance. A presidential Commission was appointed in 1971 to study marijuana (The Shafer Commission) and President Nixon dismissed their findings and threw them in the garbage, which is a violation of law itself.
Mike H.
October 18, 2012 at 5:26 pm
That guy keeps on bringing up science and he is sitting next to Jerry Cox... can't help but chuckle
jason j.
October 18, 2012 at 3:51 pm
Look at what the tobacco tax has done for hospitals recently in Arkansas. With this measure people can manage pain and do it with marijuana through safer channels, but it could also allow for taxation and that could promote revenue for the state to help with regulating the measure, school funding, etc...
Jules J.
October 18, 2012 at 12:26 pm
I really wish people would get off there high horse...Parents all around Arkansas have different drugs in there med cabinet like Naproxen, Hydrocodone,etc....you dont think ur child has the opportunity? He/She does, but we just now have seen commercials about that because they new this day was coming...
Nathanael N.
October 18, 2012 at 12:16 pm
And Jerry Cox reverts STRAIGHT to scare tactics. What a surprise....
dhgunit d.
October 18, 2012 at 12:11 pm
Really? Awesome KARK. In the intro they show a thug with guns on the table crushing up marijuana......wow. Why can't we just be honest about the issue and let the people decide? You can't win unless you scare people?
dhgunit d.
October 18, 2012 at 12:03 pm
