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1. Name: John Edwards  
2. Title: Former U.S. Senator (D-NC)
3. Medical Marijuana
Position:		 Not Clearly Pro or Con to the question "Should marijuana be a medical option?"
4. Reasoning:

"I think if we give the FDA the responsibility and have them determine how to treat this -- if somebody like you who needs medical marijuana to ease your pain and there's not other medications that can accomplish it, then the FDA can say that."


Conversation with Clayton Holton of Granite Staters, Sep. 8, 2007
5. 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.

6. Involvement:
  • 2008 Democratic Candidate for U.S. President
  • Former Director of the Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity, School of Law, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2005-2006
  • U.S. Senator (D-North Carolina), 1998-2005
  • 2004 Democratic Presidential and Vice-Presidential Candidate
  • Former Attorney and Partner, Edwards & Kirby
7. Education:
  • JD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1977
  • BA, North Carolina State University, 1974
8. Relevant Affiliations/Honors:
  • Co-founder and Member of Board of Trustees, Wade Edwards Foundation
  • Former Textile Mill Worker
9. Contact Info:
Phone: 919-636-3131 (Campaign) Fax: 919-967-3644
E-Mail:   Online contact form
Web Site: johnedwards.com

10. Other: Select Publications:
  • Cowritten with Marion Crain and Arne L. Kalleberg, Ending Poverty in America: How to Restore the American Dream, 2007
  • Home: The Blueprints of Our Lives, 2006
  • Cowritten with John Auchard, Four Trials, 2004
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