I was listening to a radio show while in Portland a couple weeks back, it was the "Lars Larson" show, and he was trashing the medical marijuana users as being 90% "legal stoners", and saying they were just in it for the cheap dope.

One older lady called in, and she was a Med. Marijuana user and, like many others, she had found it was the ONLY medication that would manage her symptoms.

I know that there are a number of drugs that can help with some diseases, but they are addictive and can have nasty side effects. Pot, OTOH, is non-addictive, and very fast acting to effectively "shut-down" serious symptoms that can (and do) occur with many non-fatal diseases.

Sadly, those it can help are often dissuaded from using it due to a mis-directed public identification of marijuana with a bunch of long-haired, homeless and usless stoners.

Fact is, Pot has some incredible curative properties that are not even close to being fully realized by the medical world.

Please don't ask me how I know so much about this..

Mike