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In article <freematt-1602971720510001@cmh07.coil.com>,
Matthew Gaylor <freematt@bronze.coil.com> wrote:
>
>Lake Research conducted a nationwide poll of 1,002 
>Americans between February 5-9, 1997 for The Lindesmith 
>Center, a Project of the Open Society Institute.  The 
>survey was fielded by International Communications 
>Research as part of the Excel Poll.  The following 
>memorandum comes from Lake Research:

A whopping 1002 Americans!!!!   I guess we can
then say that 1002 Americans represents all of the 250,000,000
people who live here!!  

Why don't you be liberal, and suggest even that Americans
overwhelmingly favor allowing doctors to perscribe marijuana?


>By a 2 to 1 margin, American voters favor allowing 
>doctors to prescribe marijuana for medicinal purposes 
>for seriously or terminally ill patients (60 percent 
>favor, 30 percent oppose, nine percent don't know, and 
>one percent refused to answer).

So you've found 600 people who are for it, 300 people who
are against it, and you call that "overwhelmingly" ???
I call it a majority of a tainted survey.

>Furthermore, Americans believe that doctors in states 
>like Arizona and California, which have passed medical 
>marijuana initiatives, should be able to prescribe 
>marijuana for medical purposes, and they don't believe 

Mmmm, I'm an American.  I don't believe in it..
Oh, you must be referring to those 600...

Kind of funny, four years ago I had a chemistry class
here at OSU with about 400 people in it...





Steve