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 Poll: New Yorkers favor legalizing medical marijuana 
#12894160 - 07/13/10 05:00 PM (1 year, 10 months ago) |
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Poll: New Yorkers favor legalizing medical marijuana
July 13, 2010 - ecnmag.com
Two thirds (64 percent) of New Yorkers favor legalizing medical marijuana. More than half are leery of natural gas drilling in the state, according to the 2010 Empire State Poll from Cornell's Survey Research Institute.
Between Feb. 1 and March 29, 800 New York residents were interviewed by telephone about whether they support or oppose medical marijuana or gas drilling in the state.
New Yorkers' responses to legalizing medical marijuana showed little variance between upstate and downstate residents. More Democrats and Independents favor legalization, as do men (67 percent), whites (66 percent) and people with higher incomes. Only those who described themselves as conservative took a majority position against legalization (49 percent).
The medical marijuana debate hinges on whether it can be reclassified by the federal government from a Schedule I drug (no accepted medical use, high potential for abuse, no circumstances under which medically supervised use is safe) to a Schedule II drug (high potential for abuse, some accepted medical use, abuse will lead to physical or psychological dependence; this category includes crack and Ritalin), said Emily G. Owens, assistant professor of policy analysis and management, who commented on the survey.
"Currently, 14 states and the District of Columbia have some form of medical marijuana law, which generally 'legalizes' medical marijuana by allowing doctors working in state-approved programs to conduct research on potential therapeutic uses of marijuana, allowing them to prescribe marijuana and discuss the potential medical benefits of the drug with their patients; or allowing patients with a medical need to possess the drug," Owens said.
States that classify marijuana as Schedule II have different laws about who can receive a prescription and how prescribed marijuana can be legally acquired. "The federal classification of marijuana as a Schedule I drug hamstrings state laws," Owens said. "State-approved labs [to grow the plant] still need to meet federal standards, physicians still need to receive licenses from the federal (not state) government to prescribe drugs. And the federal government appears to be far from ready to reclassify marijuana as a Schedule II drug. However, it is possible that as more and more states pass such laws, congressional representatives from those states might have some incentive to change the federal policy."
The poll's second question asked which of the following statements best reflects your opinion about natural gas drilling in New York state?
1) The revenues that would come to New York state from natural gas drilling outweigh any risk of contaminating the drinking water.
2) The risk of contaminating the drinking water outweighs any revenues that would come to New York state from natural gas drilling.
3) Do not know enough about the natural gas drilling issue.
More than half of state residents said contamination risk outweighs potential revenues -- an opinion held more strongly by people living in the nine counties in and around New York City (59 percent) than upstaters (43 percent). More women (57 percent) than men (49 percent) also said the risk wasn't worth it.
Thirty-two percent of people in households with more than $100,000 in income said the risk to drinking water was worth potential revenue, and a quarter of all those polled agreed. Most non-white respondents (65 percent) said risk outweighs revenues.
"This issue has been very polarizing in many communities, and there is still active research on many aspects of Marcellus shale drilling," said Trisha Smrecak of the Cornell-affiliated Paleontological Research Institution.
Read more about the poll and methodology at https://sri.cornell.edu/sri/esp.reports.cfm.
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Re: Poll: New Yorkers favor legalizing medical marijuana [Re: veggie]
#12894200 - 07/13/10 05:10 PM (1 year, 10 months ago) |
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friggen crazy how they just ask normal people about natural gas drilling thank god for that documentry on how the companies carry out their operations.
its the damn jews i tell ya!
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luckytriple6
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Re: Poll: New Yorkers favor legalizing medical marijuana [Re: veggie]
#12894202 - 07/13/10 05:10 PM (1 year, 10 months ago) |
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Those that felt the risk of ruining drinking water must figure they'll just buy it from some where else..... I did the survey about the gas drilling, they should have been asking me about weed
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Re: Poll: New Yorkers favor legalizing medical marijuana [Re: luckytriple6]
#12894222 - 07/13/10 05:14 PM (1 year, 10 months ago) |
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dude one of our main sources of drinking water HAS already been contaminated and is slowly making its way torwards or other two ways.
its like fuggin china in the us of a
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Re: Poll: New Yorkers favor legalizing medical marijuana [Re: veggie]
#12894266 - 07/13/10 05:27 PM (1 year, 10 months ago) |
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caphillkid
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Re: Poll: New Yorkers favor legalizing medical marijuana [Re: novumorganum]
#12897613 - 07/14/10 10:54 AM (1 year, 10 months ago) |
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You can thank George W. Bush and Dick "I'm going to have another heart attack" Cheney for opening up all of our land to essentially unregulated natural gas exploration.
wikipedia:
Regulation
The Energy Policy Act of 2005 exempted hydraulic fracturing from federal regulation under the Safe Drinking Water Act.[20] Reports of ground water contamination have questioned whether the exemption is appropriate. A complete listing of the specific chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing operations are not currently made available to landowners, neighbors, local officials, or health care providers. This practice is under scrutiny as well.
Two studies released in 2009, one by the U.S. Department of Energy and the other released by the Ground Water Protection Council, address hydraulic fracturing safety concerns. The industry contends that the chemicals in use have been adequately disclosed through Material Data Safety Sheets (MSDS) available on the OSHA website and that additional regulation is burdensome.[22] Chemicals used in fracturing fluid include kerosene, benzene, toluene, xylene, and formaldehyde. [23]
On June 8, 2010 the Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission voted to require full disclosure of the hydraulic fracturing fluids used in natural gas exploration.[24] This will aid in tracking pollutants that have migrated from hydraulically fractured gas wells.[25]
Congress has been urged to repeal the 2005 regulatory exemption under the Energy Policy Act of 2005.[26] The FRAC Act, introduced in June 2009, would eliminate the exemption and would require the disclosure of chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing.
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