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Belgrade News, 21 Jun 2013 – As Americans obsess over NSA spying, abuse by the IRS and other assaults on our freedom, I can’t get my mind off the thousand other ways politicians abuse us. In their arrogance, they assume that only they solve social problems. They will solve them by banning this and that, subsidizing groups they deem worthy and setting up massive bureaucracies with a mandate to cure, treat and rescue wayward souls.

Montana Standard, 20 Jun 2013 – The opinions expressed by Pat Prendergast ("Pot more dangerous than you know,"June 16) are his own – literally. According to a nationwide poll telephone poll commissioned this month by Fox News, 85 percent of Americans say that marijuana should be legal if its use is permitted by a physician. The total is the highest level of public support for the issue ever reported in a scientific poll.

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Montana Standard, 16 Jun 2013 – With the recent article published on May 12, 2013, "Mont. goes its own way on pot," it seems like the perfect opportunity to provide some clarifying facts about marijuana. There is no scientific basis for using smoked marijuana as a medicine, no sound scientific studies supporting the medical use of marijuana for treatment in the United States, and no animal or human data supporting the safety or effectiveness of marijuana for general medical use. The Food and Drug Administration ruled that smoked marijuana does not meet the modern standards of medicine in the United States. Marijuana is NOT approved nor endorsed by the FDA, the American Medical Association, the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, the American Glaucoma Society, the American Academy of Ophthalmology, the American Cancer Society or the American Pediatric Society. The National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Medicine has concluded that smoked marijuana should "not be recommended for medical use."