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

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Credit: Jim Galloway

Credit: Jim Galloway

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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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