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Child Advocates.com. Good morning. It is Wednesday, January 22nd. Five minutes after 10, you're listening to Kendall and Casey.

On 93, WIBC, a new study came out and it found that

Indiana could profit $171 million off of the tax model for marijuana. Oh yeah. This is similar to a

model that Colorado has set up. And we've got varying state reps who are for this.

And they're on different sides of the aisle.

You've got Sue Arrington, who is a progressive, and also Jim Lucas, who is a conservative.

They both support legalizing marijuana in Indiana and have different reasons for it.

But they both say that the state could use that $171 million for

different services. Jim Lucas wants to use it for addiction services and education.

So we're going to offer you a new drug to help you if you're addicted to drugs.

That's what I thought was interesting about that as well. That's kind of an odd flex. But let's just talk about this for a second. And you and I have been on

this for years. Let's just realistically start with medical marijuana. There's zero reason.

There's none. There's not a single solitary reason that in the privacy of your own home,

if you and a medical

professional who is licensed by the state of Indiana to be trustworthy and above board and whatever,

if they want to prescribe that to you for pain management or whatever, it's not on my business

what you're doing. It's not of Mike Braun's business. It's not of Jim Lucas's business.

It's not of any of these people's business.

And there's zero reason other than the stranglehold that the pharmaceutical industry has on this state, first and foremost, Eli Lilly, and then work your way backwards, that this is not, this is not happening.

There's zero reason in a medical capacity that this is not,

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