The Medical Marijuana Debate seems to have already touched a hundred degrees. There is a clear divided line between the pro and anti-marijuana crowds, which makes it rather obvious that a consensus between the two thoughts is less than probable.

State Attorney General John Suthers, in a letter to lawmakers, opposing a bill to regulate dispensaries, wrote, "The revenue generated from the marijuana industry will not cover the societal costs we will all incur".

Pro-Marijuana Activist Bob Melamede, who is a biology professor at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, said, "Let's teach our kids to be realistic. Let's teach our kids that marijuana has huge benefits".

Melamede, citing a study by the pro-legalization Marijuana Policy Project, said that "teen marijuana usage declined in medical-marijuana states". He was of the opinion that "the more medical marijuana becomes legitimized, the less marijuana becomes an outlet for rebellion".

"Children are not turned on by the thought of acting like sick old people", stated Melamede.

Thomas Crowley, a Psychiatry Professor at the University of Colorado Denver's Anschutz Medical Campus, was of a more conservative view than Melamede.

He said, "I think we are losing an addictive drug into our society, and we are not exercising the controls that we know from bitter experience should be used".