Recently I asked you guys to think about questions you might ask a public official or politician if you had a chance.

I asked you to think outside the box, thinking about asking something different than your run-of-the-mill political-reporter question.

A number of you responded. I chose a few of what I thought were the more provocative questions and then sought your vote in a poll; as to of the ones you would ask.

Questions included: "Do you cut your own grass; what is your favorite web site; Who is your best friend in the other political party." As well as this last question.

"If someone you love could have their pain reduced by the use of medical marijuana would you buy it for them? If you could not buy it, would you support their use of it?"

By far most of you who voted wanted to see the question about medical marijuana asked and answered.

I asked public officials and candidates their answer to the question about medical marijuana and here is what some of them said.

Maybe the two most divergent answers came from Gov. Robert Bentley, a Republican and a physician and his expected Democratic challenger Parker Griffith, a former Congressman from Huntsville and also a physician.

Gov. Robert Bentley

Gov. Bentley:

"I am against the recreational and medicinal use of marijuana. As a physician, I have always been supportive of medical research, like the Alabama-led study on cannabidiol, to discover new medicines that may be able to cure or treat some of our most chronic diseases. "

Parker Griffith: "That is not a hypothetical question for me. As an oncologist treating very often critically ill cancer patients who were in great pain I, and doctors like me, have faced that question. My answer in short is that yes, I have used marijuana to treat patients who were suffering in an attempt to ease that suffering. I think most physicians would tell you that they would do almost anything to help a patient in great pain end or ease that pain. All of us as doctors have pledged to first do no harm. To allow a person to suffer when there is a treatment, in this case medical marijuana that can be helpful in easing suffering, to not seek out and use that treatment is in fact to do harm to the patience and to violate the most sacred promise we make as doctors."

Dr. Parker Griffith

In the race for Alabama Attorney General the two expected nominees of their party, current AG and Republican Luther Strange and Democratic Rep. Joe Hubbard of Montgomery said this:

Attorney General Luther Strange

Strange:

"As the state's chief law enforcement official, I am bound to uphold and enforce the law. Marijuana sale and use is illegal in the state of Alabama and any decision to change the law must come from the state Legislature and governor."

Hubbard:

"I understand, firsthand, the importance of palliative care. As a child, I suffered from grand mal seizures brought on by emergency brain surgery. As a member of the Alabama Legislature, I, along with my colleagues in the House and Senate, passed Carly's Law, which will facilitate the scientific study of medicinal marijuana and its uses in palliative care. However, unless and until the Alabama Legislature determines that medicinal marijuana is legal, I would not buy it for a family member, nor would I condone their use of it. I would, however, support allowing Alabamians to obtain palliative care from a licensed physician in other states where that treatment is legal."

Rep. Joe Hubbard

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