"Legalize Medical Cannabis – Overdose rates are continuing to go up as our state is mired in the opioid epidemic. Meanwhile, our criminal justice system prosecutes nonviolent drug offenders, creating a system in which we pay more to lock people up than we do to educate our children. Legalizing Medical Cannabis will: Offer life-saving medicine to Hoosiers in need, including our veterans with chronic pain and PTSD. Save taxpayer dollars that would otherwise be spent incarcerating nonviolent cannabis offenders .Open up a new market for Hoosier businesses, farmers and entrepreneurs" (source).