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Okla.’s views on medical pot evolve
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By Sean Murphy
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LINDSAY, Okla. - Danny
Daniels, an evangelical Chris-
tian in the rural Oklahoma town
of Lindsay, is reliably conserva-
tive on just about every political
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The 45-year-old church pas-
tor is anti-abortion, voted for
President Donald Trump and is
a member of the National Rifle
Association who owns an AR-15
rifle. He also came of age during
the 1980s and believed in the
anti-drug mantra that labeled
marijuana as a dangerous gate-
way drug.
But his view on marijuana
changed as his pastoral work ex-
tended into hospice care and he
saw patients at the end of their
lives benefiting from the use of
cannabis.
“Some people said I couldn’t
be a pastor and support medical
marijuana, but I would say most
of the people I know, including
the Christians I pastor, are in fa-
vor of it,” said Daniels, pastor of
Better life Community Church
in downtown Lindsay, a rural
agricultural and energy industry
town about 50 miles south of
Oklahoma City.
Daniels is among a grow-
ing group of traditionally con-
servative Republican voters in
Oklahoma who have shifted
their position on the topic. Their
support for a medical marijua-
na measure on Tuesday’s ballot
could ensure Oklahoma joins
the growing list of states that
have legalized some form of pot.
It’s the first medical mari-
juana state question on a ballot
in 2018, and Oklahoma’s vote
precedes elections on marijua-
na legalization later this year in
Michigan and Utah. Michigan
voters will decide whether to
legalize recreational pot while
Utah is considering medical
marijuana.
Among the reddest states in
the country, Oklahoma has for
decades embraced a tough-on-
crime philosophy that includes
harsh penalties for drug crimes
that has contributed to the state
now leading the nation in the
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Lindsay, Okla., on Friday. Daniels is among a growing group of traditionally conservative
Republican voters who have shifted their position in favor of medical marijuana.
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hind bars.
But voters’ attitudes are
changing. Two years ago Okla-
homans voted to make all drug
possession crimes misdemean-
ors over the objection of law
enforcement and prosecutors.
When one GOP senator dis-
cussed adding exceptions after
the public vote, he faced an an-
gry mob at a town-hall meeting.
Oklahoma’s State Question
788, the result of an activist-led
signature drive, would allow
physicians to approve medical
marijuana licenses for people to
legally grow, keep and use can-
nabis. The proposal outlines no
qualifying medical conditions
to obtain a license, and an op-
position group that includes law
enforcement, business, political
and faith leaders launched a
late, half-million-dollar cam-
paign to defeat it, saying it’s too
loosely written.
Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fal-
lin, who typically defers from
commenting on pending state
questions, recently expressed
sue of medical cannabis “should
appeal to everyone who calls
themselves a pro-life conserva-
tive.”
reservations about the question,
saying it’s so broadly worded it
would essentially allow recre-
ational use of marijuana. If ap-
proved, Fallin said she intends
to call the Legislature back to a
special session so that a statuto-
ry framework could be approved
to further regulate sale and use.
Bill Shapard, a pollster, said
support for medical marijuana
has been consistently strong
during the five years he’s sur-
veyed likely Oklahoma voters.
Not surprisingly, Shapard said
young people, Democrats and
independents overwhelmingly
support it.
But he said about half of
self-identified
churchgoers and those over 65
also endorse medical cannabis.
‘When you can get a large
majority of the Democrats and
independents and a third to a
half of Republicans to support
you, you can get anything passed
in Oklahoma,” Shapard said.
Joanna Francisco, a longtime
Republican voter and self-de-
scribed evangelical, said the is-
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you should also be opposed to
the state spending exorbitant
amounts of money on prose-
cutors and law enforcement to
keep this medicine out of the
hands of people who might need
it,” said Francisco, 49, who holds
Bible studies in her Tulsa home.
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Post 382 in El Reno, a conser-
vative suburb 30 miles west of
Oklahoma City, many of the
regulars don’t like the idea of
legalizing marijuana, even for
medical reasons. But attitudes
are changing, said 73-year-old
Bill Elkins, a disabled Vietnam
veteran who volunteers at the
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“I’ve got mixed thoughts on
that,” said Elkins, a Republican
who said his daughter benefited
from taking cannabidiol oil, a
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