Marijuana | Insights on PBS Hawai'i

Host Dan Boylan moderates this discussion about the changes lawmakers are proposing on marijuana. This includes revising marijuana possession laws; assigning medical marijuana oversight to the Department of Health; and increasing the amount of marijuana a patient and caregiver can maintain.
Scheduled to appear: James Hochberg, President of Hawaii Family Advocates; Pamela Lichty, President of the Drug Policy Action Group; Alan Shinn, Executive Director of the Coalition for a Drug-Free Hawaii; and Charles Webb, MD, Founder of MUM (Medical Use of Marijuana) Clinic Hawaii.
Original Air Date: April 11, 2013.

[@burnusswarthout6862]

These guys look at this issue to narrowly.They are focused solely on the flower of the plant and don't even think about the other uses for the rest of the plant.There are 25,000 uses for this plant,getting high is just one of them.Legalizing cannabis would clean our environment and atmosphere and reduce our dependance on oil.

[@geraldcarmack]

I thought this would be the perfect place to put my current ideas about marijuana forward.
1. Smoking marijuana does things for people that are not currently defined by science. THC and CBD have been defined by science and approved for use in people with cancer, seizures, pain, HIV, Nausea ...
2. The effect of marijuana on the average male user can be equated to something healthier and more profound than a cup of coffee. (Girls, consider yeast and share your opinions). Pot smoking is better for the male prostate than coffee.
3. Eating Pot is less offensive than smoking pot but eating pot is more likely to make a subject gain weight than smoking pot.
4. Smoking and Eating pot create two different states of being. Both are positive.
5. Science has not defined everything there is to know about marijuana and to limit its consumption in any way is not strategic.
6.Coordination increases with marijuana use should be considered as something not defined by science yet. Studies should be done..

[@79jdoggydog79]

Hawaii will definitely decriminalize it, but probably not legalize it in the next to years.