Diane Feinstein Biography
- Title:
- U.S. Senator (D-CA)
- Position:
- Con to the question "Should Marijuana Be a Medical Option?"
- Reasoning:
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“If marijuana is to be used as a pharmaceutical or therapeutic drug, it should be submitted for approval from the Food and Drug Administration [FDA] like any other drug, and I firmly support the FDA’s current review and approval process.”
Letter to constituent, Dec. 9, 2002
- Involvement and Affiliations:
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- U.S. Senator (D-CA), 1992-present
- Chairman, Rules and Administration Committee
- Member, Judiciary Committee
- Member, Appropriations Committee
- Member, Select Committee on Intelligence
- Co-chair, Senate Cancer Coalition
- Vice-Chair, National Dialogue on Cancer
- Chair, Task Force on AIDS, 1983-1988
- Mayor of San Francisco, 1978-1988
- Recipient, Distinguished Community Health Superhero award, National Association of Community Health Centers, Mar. 2005
- Recipient, Outstanding Member of the U.S. Senate Award, National Narcotic Officers Associations Coalition, Feb. 2005
- Recipient, Life Time Achievement Award, National AIDS Foundation, 1993
- Recipient, Congressional Quarterly’s Top 50 Member of Congress B Top Five Centrists, 2000
- Education:
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- BA, History, Stanford University, 1955
- Other:
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- Introduced the National Cancer Act