Medical Marijuana Coming To West Virginia?

It is looking increasingly as if West Virginia will be mulling the legalization of medical marijuana in the very near future:

State lawmakers said a bill allowing legal medical marijuana might be introduced this session with a wide range of views on the subject from local legislators.

In a press release from the Marijuana Policy Project, a recent poll conducted in December by Public Policy Polling (PPP), found 56 percent of voters support changing state law to allow people with serious illnesses to use medical marijuana if their doctors recommend it.

Just 34 percent said they were opposed. The same survey question asked by PPP in January 2013 found 53 percent supportive and 40 percent opposed.

“West Virginians clearly want the legislature to take action on this issue,” said Matt Simon, a legislative analyst for the Marijuana Policy Project, who is a West Virginia native and graduate of West Virginia University. “Marijuana can be an effective treatment for a wide variety of debilitating medical conditions and symptoms. It’s time to adopt a policy that allows people to use it without fear of arrest.”

By: dave-dr-gonzo

David Hirsch, a.k.a. Dave "Doctor" Gonzo*, is a renegade record producer, video producer, writer, reformed corporate shill, and still-registered lobbyist for non-one-percenter performing artists and musicians. He lives in a heavily fortified compound in one of Manhattan's less trendy neighborhoods.

* Hirsch is the third person to use the pseudonym, a not-so-veiled tribute to journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson, with the permission of his predecessors Gene Gaudette of American Politics Journal (currently webmaster and chief bottlewasher at Liberaland) and Stephen Meese at Smashmouth Politics.