[robertpaulsen]

"I will go along with the recommendation of a Medical physician."

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.

[Enterprise]

One more time then. If Raich is getting pain relief from smoking marijuana, I DON'T GIVE A DAMN about what the law says. She is the one in pain and she is the one who is suffering, and ANY substance which eases her pain should be allowed. Can I be any more clear that I consider it monstrous to force people to suffer when something is available to give them some relief?

And one more time, if the law allowed a physician to prescribe "smoking opium" as a means to pain relief for someone like Raich, fine with me.