Pete Stark: “I urge my colleagues to support the Medical Use of Marijuana Act.”

I think we have to ask ourselves, how do we do more good than harm in eliminating the compensation arrangements.

Turning a physician's decision to refer a patient into a marketable commodity.

It gave every shyster and promoter a loophole. We now have to keep rewriting the laws like the tax code.

In 2007 Pete Stark wrote that he believed that, on balance, the law may have done more harm than good.