The Iowa Pharmacy Board is presently holding open hearings around the state to determine whether or not to make a legislative recommendation to legalize medicinal marijuana, as 13 other states have done.
Only 13 other states have done this? What is everybody waiting for? We definitely should make pot legal as a means to reduce physical pain and suffering, as we often do with other controlled substances. The question isn't whether we should legalize pot for medical needs, the question is whether we should make it legal, period.
If we wouldn't be such a repressed society, we'd decriminalize pot altogether. It's no more mind altering or addicting than alcohol, or for that matter certain prescription drugs. Let's legalize it and regulate it, just like we do with with so many other mind-altering substances, and stop incarcerating users who are not a threat to society. As for those disingenuous people who argue that we'll become a nation of stoners if pot is legalized, please - I don't see those same folks arguing that we've become a nation of alcoholics.
If Iowa is progressive enough to allow gay marriage, we surely ought to be progressive enough to allow medicinal marijuana, and we probably ought to be progressive enough to legalize it, period.
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