Editor's Note: According to this article, Senator Errington's proposed bill "would permit 'qualifying patients' to use medical marijuana under 'qualifying medical conditions' including glaucoma, Chron’s disease, cancer, hepatitis, AIDS, multiple sclerosis, seizures, chronic nausea, chronic pain, sickle cell anemia, spinal cord injury and chronic muscle spasms."
But the bill faces serious opposition, with mindsets such as Republican Senator Doug Eckerty, who is quoted in this article as saying: "It’s an interesting topic and something I need to learn more about, but I don’t support it. It looks like a slippery slope to me. I would need to hear more about it from an awful lot of people including medical experts before venturing down that path."
If you need to learn more about it, then learn more about it. Get the medical experts talking. Get the patients talking. They're out there. At this point, with so many states supporting medical marijuana, and so many cases to support marijuana's medical effectiveness, ignorance, today, is a poor defense.Â
MUNCIE —Â One of the backers of a medical marijuana bill introduced by Sen. Sue Errington, D-Muncie, is the father of a Muncie woman who died in her 30s of a terminal illness.
“Her dad told me her best days were when she could get high-grade marijuana,” Errington says.
The fifth annual “Hoosier Survey,” conducted in 2012 by Ball State University, found that 53 percent of Hoosiers supported decriminalizing marijuana by making it legal to possess small quantities.
The 2013 “Hoosier Survey” found that 52 percent of Hoosiers supported making marijuana a regulated substance much like alcohol and tobacco, and that 78 percent of Hoosiers believed that marijuana should be taxed like cigarettes.
But don’t expect those findings to result in action by the Indiana General Assembly this year.
