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Saturday, December 18, 2004
The elderly support medicinal marijuana
This is actually somewhat surprising. One would tend to think it's the young who are in favor of liberalizing drug laws while the old are in favor of maintaining strict regulations, but this new poll taken for AARP seems to indicate otherwise.
This will obviously not have any effect upon the upcoming Supreme Court decision, but it's nevertheless very interesting to see that such a large proportion of the nation believes in medicinal marijuana. It will be interesting to see how this issue plays out in the near future.
Nearly three-fourths of Americans middle age and older support legalizing marijuana for medical use, according to a poll taken for AARP.Link.
More than half of those questioned said they believed marijuana has medical benefits, while a larger majority agreed the drug is addictive.
AARP, whose 35 million members are all at least 50 years old, says it has no political position on medical marijuana and that its local branches have not chosen sides in the scores of state ballot initiatives on the issue in recent elections.
This will obviously not have any effect upon the upcoming Supreme Court decision, but it's nevertheless very interesting to see that such a large proportion of the nation believes in medicinal marijuana. It will be interesting to see how this issue plays out in the near future.
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