PA Nurses Endorse Medical Marijuana [VIDEO]

[Counterpoint PA]

This is a video from my show Counterpoint PA, the only grassroots progressive newscast exclusively about Pennsylvania politics.

In this video, I report on the Pennsylvania State Nurses Association's recent endorsement of medical marijuana and reclassification of marijuana under federal law to allow for more testing of its medical uses, putting the news in the larger context of the marijuana reform fight in PA in which a bill for full legalization was introduced in the General Assembly for the first time just this year.

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Activism in Action - A Lighting Round Update of Progressive Protests in PA

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Sean Kitchen of Raging Chicken Press joins me to discuss his reporting on a proposal to gut the state's endangered species act to allow even more unregulated fracking in the state

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