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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110328:18:52:00

>> absolutely. and the ingredient in marijuana that has some therapeutic effect has been isolated and refined out away from the other things. it's been on the market for 25 years in a medication known as marinol. so the beneficial portion of marijuana ingredients is already available as a prescription drug without adding the 400-some-odd other chemicals in it without getting the marijuana high, which is what really a lot of people are after. and without getting all the side effects that come from smoking marijuana. >> pete, i know you want to respond to that. >> well, listen, i could argue all of those points but i would just simply say, what are the side effects of painkillers like vicodin and oxycontin. they're tremendously addictive. >> that's why they're prescription. >> of course. this would be prescription as well. i took a phone call from a veteran the other day on my radio show who had severe burns across most of his body. he tried everything.

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