PRO POT--Dr. Lester Grinspoon, psychiatry professor from the Harvard Medical School, views a slide as he prepares to testify in opposition to Senate Bill 2, before the Senate Judiciary Committee, at the Ohio Statehouse, in Columbus, Ohio, on Wednesday, Feb. 5, 1997. Senate Bill 2 would eliminate a provision of Ohio Law permitting the medical use of marijuana.

EMOTIONAL TESTIMONY--Mansfield, Ohio psychologist, Paul Robinson gestures during his testimony before the Ohio Senate Judiciary Committee, in Columbus, Ohio, on Wednesday, Feb. 5, 1997. Robinson, whose son Alan has battled leukemia, spoke in opposition to Senate Bill 2, which will strike the provision of Ohio Law which permits medicinal use of marijuana.

IT'S IN THE BAG--Ohio Senate Judiciary Committee member Janet Howard, and Chairman Louis Blessing listen to testimony in opposition to Senate Bill 2, which would repeal the medical use of marijuana from Ohio Law, at the Ohio Statehouse, in Columbus, Ohio, on Wednesday, Feb. 5, 1997. Within hours, the Bill passed on the Senate floor by a 30-3 margine.

SHOWING EMPATHY--Ohio Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Louis Blessing responds to the testimony of Dr. Paul Robinson during a hearing on Senate Bill 2, at the Ohio Statehouse, in Columbus, Ohio, on Wednesday, Feb. 5, 1997. Within hours the Bill passed the full Senate by a vote of 30-3