Dr Christopher Fichtner MD is a psychiatrist and the former 
Mental Health Director for the State of Illinois. In his new 
book, 'Cannabinomics: The Marijuana Policy Tipping Point,' 
Fichtner predicts that marijuana policy is about to change 
radically.

Dr Fichtner points out three public policy trajectories 
converging; The medical marijuana movement is gaining 
momentum. People are increasingly waking up to the fact 
that drug prohibition creates more public health problems 
than it solves. And, in the same way that the Great 
Depression caused people to reprioritize how we spend 
our public dollars, the current economic crisis has got 
people thinking that bringing the biggest cash crop in 
the US back into the open might not be such a bad idea.

"Medical marijuana is a prism through which alternative 
health issues could be viewed" -- J. Rense