Medical Cannabis

To be honest with you, I'm not concerned one way or the other about legalization which is why it was not included in this topic. That's because in CA cannabis was "decriminalized" in 1972. If you're caught with an ounce or less it is confiscated and you recieve a one hundred dollar fine. Anything over an ounce is subject to existing "possesion" laws and results in jail and court just like it's always been (since the 1930s).

BTW, this is an excellent point about "first steps". People are always pointing out that changing the law is the first step toward legalization. Well, decriminalization went into effect thirty-seven years ago and so far, the second step hasn't been taken yet and probably never will (even with a liberal administration in power and in a liberal state like CA).

Better to feel pain (normal reality in my life, my left knee is sending pain to my brain every second of my life, I learned to ignore it after all these years), than live my life in altered state and suffer all these consequences of smoking mary.

If I want to get drunk, I'll drink beer. But I don't smoke, I don't like this behaviour and state of mind that it brings.

Beer for life!

OK, you got me, I off-topiced a little bit. I remember my ex saying: "I can't drink beer, I'm taking pills."

in this case, it would be helpful. So would be opium (or morfium).

But hell, some people here take beer as cure for everything. Something like vodka in Russia.