Voters and Health Organizations Overwhelmingly Support Legal Access

Many in the scientific and health community endorse legal access to the use of cannabis as medicine. More than 80 national and state health care organizations including the American Public Health Association, the American Nurses Association, and the AIDS Action Council have passed resolutions backing patients¹ access to medicinal cannabis under a doctor¹s supervision. American physicians are also supportive with nearly half of all doctors with an opinion on the subject supporting legalizing cannabis as a medicine, according to a recent national survey published in the Journal of Addictive Diseases.
 
Public support for the physician-supervised use of medicinal cannabis is also high with approximately 80 percent of US voters backing cannabis¹ availability as a prescription medicine, including more than 70 percent of South Carolinians.