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‘Political rewind’ replay: How medical pot might be used to fight an opioid epidemic in Georgia

AJC file
AJC file
By Jim Galloway
Feb 13, 2017

Today's edition of GPB's "Political Rewind" began with two state legislators, Reps. Stacey Evans, D-Smyrna, and Allen Peake, R-Macon, and a discussion of medical marijuana – and how it could become a tool in addressing the opioid epidemic that is now ravaging rural Georgia.

You know you've got a problem when crime lab investigators seek extra funding to increase morgue space.

Then we shifted to the Sunday debut of Stephen Miller, the 31-year-old White House policy analyst for President Donald Trump.

If you missed it live this afternoon, you can listen to it here now:

Today’s cast: Host Bill Nigut; yours truly; Evans and Peake.

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Jim Galloway, the newspaper’s former political columnist, was a writer and editor at the AJC for four decades.

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