Favors a tightly regulated medical marijuana program. Link

“We have been using it medicinally for 2,000 years.  This has merit.  I think we definitely need to look at it.  If we can help somebody overcome an illness or help them with their daily life, without endangering their welfare or having less impacts, it’s our job to look at it.’

However, she says they are still doing their research, “I think that what makes us most uncomfortable is we are not physicians.  I don’t think we have any physicians down there.  We are not pharmacists and we are not nurses.  It’s not a field we are super comfortable with.  A lot of times we say, ‘why isn’t the FDA doing this’ and ‘why are we doing this’.”