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Name:
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Hillary Rodham Clinton
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Title: |
U.S. Senator (D-NY)
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Medical Marijuana Position: |
Not Clearly Pro or Con
to the question "Should marijuana be a medical option?"
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Reasoning: |
"With respect to medical marijuana, you know I think that we have had a lot of rhetoric and the federal government has been very intent upon trying to prevent states from being able to offer that as an option for people who are in pain. I think we should be doing medical research on this. We ought to find what are the elements that claim to be existing in marijuana that might help people who are suffering from cancer and nausea-related treatments. We ought to find that out. I don't think we should decriminalize it, but we ought to do research into what, if any, medical benefits it has."
"Townhall," Plymouth State College, Oct. 11, 2007
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Credibility Ranking: |
 
Experts
PhD's and JD's (lawyers) with significant post-doctoral involvement in medical marijuana issues; judges who have presided over medical marijuana cases.
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Involvement: |
- 2008 Democratic Candidate for U.S. President
- U.S. Senator (D-New York), 2000-present
- Member, Senate Armed Services Committee
- Member, Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
- Member, Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions
- Member, Senate Special Committee on Aging
- First Lady of the United States, 1993-2000
- First Lady of Arkansas, 1979-1981, 1983-1993
- Faculty, University of Arkansas Law School, 1975-1976
- House Judiciary Committee, 1974
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Education: |
- JD, Yale Law School, 1973
- BA, Wellesley College, 1969
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Relevant Affiliations/Honors: |
- Co-founder, Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families
- Chairperson, Task Force on National Health Care Reform, 1993
- Board Member, TCBY Yogurt Company, 1985-1992
- Board Member, Wal-Mart, 1985-1992
- Boardmember, Legal Services Corporation, 1978
- Partner, Rose Law Firm, 1976-1992
- Former Chairperson, American Bar Association's Commission on Women
- Former Chairperson, Arkansas Educatinal Standards Committee
- Former Boardmember, Arkansas Children's Hospital
- Former Boardmember, Legal Services Corporation
- Former Boardmember, Children's Defense Fund
- Former Boardmember, Child Care Action Campaign
- Former Boardmember, Children's Television Workshop
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Contact Info: |
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Other: |
Married to Bill Clinton, 42nd President of the United States
Select Publications:
- It Takes A Village: And Other Lessons Children Teach Us, 2006
- Living History, 2003
- An Invitation to the White House: At Home with History, 2000
- Dear Socks, Dear Buddy: Kids’ Letters to the First Pets, 1998
- Cowritten with editor Claire G. Osborne, The Unique Voice of Hillary Rodham Clinton: A Portrait in Her Own Words, 1997
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