{"id":56961,"date":"2022-09-02T07:05:26","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T15:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2022\/09\/02\/dr-oz-admits-marijuana-is-a-safer-solution-than-prescription-drugs-while-attacking-senate-rival-fetterman-over-legalization-support\/"},"modified":"2022-09-02T10:46:03","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T18:46:03","slug":"dr-oz-admits-marijuana-is-a-safer-solution-than-prescription-drugs-while-attacking-senate-rival-fetterman-over-legalization-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2022\/09\/02\/dr-oz-admits-marijuana-is-a-safer-solution-than-prescription-drugs-while-attacking-senate-rival-fetterman-over-legalization-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Oz Admits Marijuana Is A \u2018Safer Solution\u2019 Than Prescription Drugs While Attacking Senate Rival Fetterman Over Legalization Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

Dr. Oz again took aim at his U.S. Senate opponent over his support for marijuana legalization<\/a>\u2014but, after being pressed on his past comments on the issue, he conceded that, yes, he\u2019s personally in favor of medical cannabis, saying that it\u2019s a \u201csafer solution\u201d compared to certain prescription drugs like opioids.<\/p>\n

Mehmet Oz, a former TV health personality, claimed during an interview with Fox News on Thursday that Lt. Gov. John Fetterman (D) wants to \u201clegalize all drugs\u201d and \u201cdoesn\u2019t want to talk about\u201d issues that he says are more important to Pennsylvanians.<\/p>\n

The host pressed GOP candidate Oz on marijuana policy, asking for his reaction to the Democratic Senate nominee\u2019s recent call for President Joe Biden to use executive authority to decriminalize marijuana ahead of his visit to Pittsburgh on Monday for a Labor Day parade, where Fetterman plans to speak with the president about cannabis reform<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Oz was also asked what he made of the newly announced initiative from Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf (D) and Fetterman to expedite pardons for people with low-level marijuana convictions<\/a> on their records through the month of September.<\/p>\n

Fetterman, who chairs the state Board of Pardons, previously said that he wants to process cannabis clemency<\/a>\u00a0for as many people as possible before leaving office.<\/p>\n

\u201cListen, my issue is that he wants to legalize all drugs,\u201d Oz said, misleadingly. \u201cHe even supports heroin injection sites, and we have the largest open-air drug market in the country here in Philadelphia. It is destroying the city.\u201d<\/p>\n

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While Fetterman does back harm reduction approaches to substance misuse, including authorizing safe drug consumption sites, he\u2019s campaigned on legalizing marijuana and says he would support decriminalizing possession of other currently illicit substances.<\/p>\n

Polls show that, nationally, most Americans favor allowing overdose prevention sites. And 58 percent of Pennsylvanians back adult-use cannabis legalization<\/a>. But Oz nonetheless argued that his opponent\u2019s drug policy reform platform shows that he\u2019s \u201cout of touch with what\u2019s going on in Pennsylvania\u201d and is \u201ccompletely missing the target.\u201d<\/p>\n

The interview then turned to the GOP nominee\u2019s own cannabis record, with the host pointing out that it was just two years ago Oz called marijuana \u201cone of the most underused tools in America,\u201d<\/a> saying that the plant is safer than alcohol.<\/p>\n

\u201cOh no, I\u2019m supportive of medical marijuana,\u201d Oz clarified. \u201cI think, with the doctor\u2019s involvement\u2014especially for seniors who have end of life issues, suffering from pain\u2014I think it\u2019s a safer solution than, for example, narcotics in many cases. But it has to be studied, and we have to understand it and, therefore, physicians should be involved.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t want to give marijuana to every young person in America who\u2019s struggling with getting through their day,\u201d he added, seeming to imply that would occur under the broader legalization plan Fetterman backs. \u201cWe already have a problem with getting folks mobilized to enter the workforce. I think that\u2019s a slippery slope.\u201d<\/p>\n

Oz and other Fetterman critics,\u00a0including far-right provocateur Ann Coulter<\/a>\u00a0and former U.S. House Speaker New Gingrich, have also taken issue with a cannabis-themed flag that the lieutenant governor hung over his office balcony in Harrisburg. (Coulter falsely suggested that Fetterman deleted a tweet showing him holding the flag in a recent blog post.)<\/p>\n

Prior to Wolf endorsing marijuana legalization, Fetterman\u00a0also led a statewide listening tour<\/a>\u00a0to hear what residents had to say about the policy proposal. He touted his role in that tour on his Senate campaign website.<\/p>\n

He also talked about his work to \u201clegalize weed for jobs, justice, veterans, farmers and revenue\u201d in a fundraising email early this year.<\/p>\n

Fetterman previously said that farmers in his state could\u00a0grow better marijuana than people in New Jersey<\/a>\u2014and that was one reason why Pennsylvania should expeditiously reform its cannabis laws.<\/p>\n

In 2020, he hosted a virtual forum where he got\u00a0advice on how to effectively implement a cannabis system<\/a>\u00a0from the lieutenant governors of Illinois and Michigan, which have enacted legalization.<\/p>\n

The race for Pennsylvania governor has also\u00a0put cannabis policy in the spotlight<\/a>, with the pro-reform Democratic nominee Attorney General Josh Shapiro competing against the aggressively anti-legalization Republican state Sen. Doug Mastriano.<\/p>\n

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Top Federal Health Official Blasts Marijuana Research Barriers That Have Hindered Studies Into Opioid Alternatives<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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