Look buddy - I will go along with the recommendation of a Medical physician. I do not personally view smoked opium as some sort of "benefit," especially if someone is in terrible pain. What absurdity! I will agree with whatever a physician finally decides is the best course of treatment for the patient. If a physician decides smoked opium is the best course of pain relief for a 12 year, a 22 year old, or a 92 year old, then let that decision be between the physician and the patient. Now quit bothering me with your silly hypotheticals.
Yeah, I bet that's what Ms. Raich said also. But after "nearly three dozen doctor-prescribed medications", she found a "doctor" who would "recommend" marijuana.
According to Proposition 215, the doctor cannot be "punished or denied any right or privilege" for recommending marijuana -- such recommendation allowing the patient to grow their own and/or smoke marijuana.
I was simply asking if Proposition 215 was about opium rather than marijuana, would you go along? Seems to me your answer is yes (or more correctly, ABSOFREAKINGLUTELY).
Keep in mind, there will always be "Medical physicians" who will recommend anything, especially if there are no legal consequences. The two largest marijuana "recommenders" have been suspended by their respective medical boards.