Pete Stark: “The point of making marijuana a Schedule II drug is so that it can be regulated as closely as other prescription drug…”

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

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

Those 43,000 people are not just anecdotes. They are people too, who will lose their care if this is repealed.

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