From https://www.marijuanamoment.net/oklahoma-senator-claims-medical-marijuana-is-just-for-getting-high/:
A U.S. senator from a state where polls indicate his constituents will legalize medical marijuana this month is calling cannabis’s therapeutic value into question.
“Marijuana is not used for anyone on chronic pain other than just getting high and to escape from the pain,” Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) said in a Friday interview.
“Marijuana’s not used for pain. It’s used for the high and it’s used for other purposes.”
Oklahoma voters will see a measure to make medical cannabis legal on this month’s June 26 primary ballot. A survey last month found that likely voters favor the initiative by a margin of 58 percent to 30 percent.
But Lankford isn’t on board. And recently he has become one of the only members of the U.S. Senate to consistently voice opposition to marijuana law reform.
Last week, for example, he tried to strip language from a Justice Department bill that protects state medical cannabis laws from federal interference.
Read more here: https://www.marijuanamoment.net/oklahoma-senator-claims-medical-marijuana-is-just-for-getting-high/
Here’s what our friends at MPP had to say:
This is just wrong. Medical marijuana has the potential to save lives. To say otherwise ignores the positives impacts medical marijuana has already had for patients where it is legal.
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