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Cannabinomics: The Marijuana Policy Tipping Point


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Christopher Fichtner is a psychiatrist and the former mental health director for the state of Illinois. In his new book, Cannabinomics: The Marijuana Policy Tipping Point, Fichtner predicts that marijuana policy is about to change radically. As Fichtner points out, three public policy trajectories converging. The medical marijuana movement is gaining momentum. People are increasingly wakening up to the fact that drug prohibition creates more public health problems than it solves. And, in the same way that the Great Depression caused people to reprioritize how we spend our public dollars, the current economic crisis has got people thinking that bringing the biggest cash crop in the US out into the open might not be such a bad idea.

 

Reason.tv's Paul Feine sat down with Dr. Fichtner to learn more about the imminent marijuana policy tipping point.

 

Approximately 10 minutes. Produced by Paul Feine and Alex Manning.

 

http://reason.com/blog/2010/08/13/reasontv-the-marijuana-policy

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Great Post,

Very interesting, and it is about time the medical community, husband excluded, started speaking out on the real benefits of marihuana. But also, and as important, on the public policy issues that plague us with the negative perception of marihuana.

 

 

 

Hopefully the book will help stimulate some thoughtful discussion about taxing and regulating cannabis on a national level, as Dr Fichtner suggests. Economics, medicine, and the harms that current public policy have wrought are really all coming together. And I agree it's definitely about time the medical community started speaking out. Politics really needs to be kept out of medicine. Medicine is best when left to doctors and what is in the best interests of the patients.

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