I just visited Colorado and the situation there is SO DIFFERENT than 10 years ago, or the standard in the rest of the US... it's nuts. You drive down a street in Denver, Colorado City (Springs), or Fort Collins and it's Bud Med, Pure Health, Green Med, etc. one after another.
The laws are clearly in flux now. It's in this crazy gray region, where sure, some people that have cancer, MS and AIDS are in MUCH BETTER positions where they don't have to deal with black market BS outside of their comfort zone to get medication that makes them feel so much better, but on the other hand, people who clearly want cannabis just for recreational use are getting prescriptions to get high. Which I don't see anything wrong with, other than the fact that the law should just face reality and acknowledge that some people want to spend their afternoon hikes and TV time high on weed and not try to control their lives.
This is progress, but it's not there yet. Clearly the next step is to stop making casual smokers pretend they are in severe pain' or 'uncurable depression' to get their weed. It's not any more harmful than beer, and even if it was more harmful than gin, it's not any of the government's business to tell people how they spend their mind power.
The laws are clearly in flux now. It's in this crazy gray region, where sure, some people that have cancer, MS and AIDS are in MUCH BETTER positions where they don't have to deal with black market BS outside of their comfort zone to get medication that makes them feel so much better, but on the other hand, people who clearly want cannabis just for recreational use are getting prescriptions to get high. Which I don't see anything wrong with, other than the fact that the law should just face reality and acknowledge that some people want to spend their afternoon hikes and TV time high on weed and not try to control their lives.
This is progress, but it's not there yet. Clearly the next step is to stop making casual smokers pretend they are in severe pain' or 'uncurable depression' to get their weed. It's not any more harmful than beer, and even if it was more harmful than gin, it's not any of the government's business to tell people how they spend their mind power.