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Eight in 10 Americans favor legalizing medical marijuana: poll | Raw Story
I was going to post my own opinion of this, but then I got high.
Certainly looks like the Medical Marijuana debate is over.
The medical marijuana debate among American voters is over.
Eight in 10 Americans -- 81% overall -- support allowing doctors to prescribe cannabis, according to an ABC News/Washington Post poll.
That's up from just 69% in 1997, the last time the two firms asked that question, and from 75% in 2003, according to Gallup.
The main divide among American voters today is how the medical community should be enabled to doll out the drug. The most recent state to allow medical marijuana -- New Jersey -- has the most strenuous controls found anywhere in the nation.
A slim majority, 56 percent, support differing to a doctor's discretion on who should be prescribed marijuana, according to the poll.
In spite of the apparent national mandate for medical marijuana, just 14 states allow it.
I was going to post my own opinion of this, but then I got high.