{"id":12582,"date":"2015-11-10T15:20:34","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T20:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/?p=12582"},"modified":"2017-07-11T10:38:44","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T15:38:44","slug":"your-voice-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/tartan-news\/2015\/11\/10\/your-voice-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Voice"},"content":{"rendered":"

WHAT IS YOUR REACTION TO ISSUE 3 NOT PASSING?<\/b><\/h4>\n

Emily Bullock, Surgical Technology Major\"EMILY<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cI was unhappy about that. I wanted it to pass. I think marijuana should be legalized for medical and recreational use, so I was pretty disappointed that it didn\u2019t pass. [Marijuana] does have its downfalls, obviously. It\u2019s not good to smoke anything, chemicals aren\u2019t really good for you no matter what, but I think it has a lot more benefits than [bad], especially medical-wise. They should at least legalize it for that because it does help slow the progression of diseases, it does help as a painkiller that\u2019s not addictive. . . I do still think it should be used recreationally as long as it\u2019s safe. They\u2019re not going to give it to kids, they\u2019re not letting you do it out in public. It\u2019s just like alcohol, it\u2019s your own thing. I just hope they\u2019re going to come up with something better on the next ballot.\u201d<\/p>\n

Angela Leon, Communication Major\"ANGELA<\/a><\/b><\/b><\/p>\n

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\u201cTo be honest, I wasn\u2019t for it, so I\u2019m okay with it. No one in my family has ever smoked so I\u2019ve never seen the need for it. I understand that medical marijuana use was important, but Issue 3 seemed kind of messed up because of the whole monopoly factor about it. So it seemed more bad than good to have it passed for the way they wrote it. I\u2019m thinking next year they\u2019ll probably amend that and then more people will vote for it. [I would vote for it] if it was just medical. I\u2019d be all for it. The recreational use\u2014it\u2019s not that it bothers me, I just don\u2019t feel like there\u2019s a need for it. There are people who are really upset about it, there are people who don\u2019t really mind, the ones that are hoping for better things for next year. I was just kind of like \u2018Oh, alright.\u2019 I didn\u2019t have a strong stance on it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brad Jess, Business Management Major\"BRAD<\/a><\/b><\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cI feel bad because that\u2019s taking all the cancer treatment away. I\u2019ve lost people who have had cancer and that helped them with it, but since it didn\u2019t pass, it\u2019s like people are being selfish toward them. I voted for it just because of the cancer reason, but that\u2019s my belief on it. [Recreational use] is their choice. I don\u2019t personally smoke, so I really don\u2019t worry about the recreational, I just worry about the medical use. I didn\u2019t really wait on the results, but when I heard it didn\u2019t pass, I thought it was pretty selfish to the people who just want to use it for just smoking because they want to smoke, not for the medical use. Those people kind of make me mad. I was more toward the angry side of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Steven Juvera, Radiology Major\"STEVEN<\/a><\/b><\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve talked to a lot of people on campus about it. Most people have the same kind of thoughts like, there\u2019s a lot of legitimate medical uses for marijuana. Recreational legalization has worked in other states, but I think a lot of people are afraid it will find its way into our younger people in schools. I think that\u2019s probably the biggest fear. I think that eventually it will be legalized, which I think I am actually okay with, from experience. I have used it for a long time, earlier in my life. I can tell you personally I never felt withdraw from stopping using it, I\u2019ve never had any ill side effects from using it, and even after 20 years after the fact. . . If you asked me\u2014everybody has vices and crutches\u2014alcohol, tobacco, marijuana. . . I would say that marijuana is the safest out of all three. . . I\u2019m not surprised it didn\u2019t pass and I\u2019m okay with it not passing. When the time is right, I think when they get the situation corrected, then eventually we\u2019ll have it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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