What personal freedom is next?

[ShadowHM]

The people patronizing the cannabis clubs, to me, look far to fat and happy (even before taking their puffs) to be suffering from a chronic disease that requries medication.

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Fat and happy? AIDS and anorexia are not the only conditions that are mitigated by marijuana.

Chronic pain can be treated by marijuana, with fewer side effects than the opiate drugs that used to be the treatment of choice. Multiple Sclerosis is also on the list of conditions mitigated by marijuana. People who suffer both of those conditions don't necessarily walk around looking thin and gloomy. And that was why I questioned your diagnostic skills.

I didn't say it should be denied, I specifically said the opposite: "it's fine to use if you really have a use for it to relieve symptoms."

You did. :) But I read the context as suggesting that you were skeptical that this was the case for most users at those clinics. :huh:

Choice B. I thought I made that pretty clear.

My apologies. A careful re-read of your post did say that you believed that this was something that the State of California should 'fix', which does imply that you believe that the devil was, indeed, in the details.

Personal note:

I am, perhaps, overly reacting to that 'fat and happy' choice of words. I had an aunt who suffered juvenile onset psoriatic rheumatoid arthritis. She lived with pain all her life. She had to have her hands and feet broken and re-set three times due to the distortions caused by that disease. She was always on some form of pain medication, all of which had their own side effects. She was overweight because exercise was not an easy option. And yet, despite all that, she was a very cheerful woman. In many ways, she was a role model for me in how to react when life hands you lemons. You would never have guessed from her demeanor that she lived with chronic and debilitating pain.