Jared Polis of Colorado and Earl Blumenauer of Oregon hope to introduce two bills in the House of Representatives that could change the way marijuana is used and distributed across the country.
Dr Timothy Jennings is the president-elect of the Tennessee Psychiatric Association and does not believe legalization would be good for those in the Tennessee Valley.
"The consequences to the brain are the same whether it's legal or illegal, and so if you have more people smoking, you will have more brain damaging effects, and one of those affects is that it increases the chance of psychosis and so we would have more mental illness in our region if we have more people smoking marijuana."
