I'm sorry, but I really don't buy the notion that legitimate medical purposes are served by permitting the production and sale of "medicine" by ---- wink, wink ---- "cooperatives" that conveniently have access to doctors who prescribe their product in minutes to "patients" suffering from soft-tissue ailments that any practitioner can tell you are nearly impossible to accurately detect ---- ask any workman's comp attorney.

There are several severe ailments claimed to be made more tolerable by the use of medical marijuana: cancer, HIV/AIDs, multiple sclerosis and glaucoma. But the list isn't confined to those devastating and debilitating diseases.

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