Will Medical Marijuana Ever Be Covered By Medicare?

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There are certainly no shortage of issues as we head into the 2016 elections, some of which include terrorism/national security, U.S. economic growth, prescription drug inflation, and of course marijuana.

Over the past two decades we’ve seen a rapid shift in the way the American public views the currently illicit drug. In 1995 there wasn’t a single state that approved marijuana for medicinal use, and just a quarter of respondents in national polls shared a favorable view of…