[RJCogburn]

Where's the 'dignity', in spending your final days in a dope haze?

Well, mate, if there is significant pain and the patient isn't smoking dope, then he/she may be on 'legal' opiates which may create their own haze.

Fact is, though, that many people with pain, using either opiates or dope, are not in a haze at all.

[Illbay]

Fact, though, is that most of the people needing this "medicine" are just old dopers who want to legitimize their life-long addiction.

[BlazingArizona]

Where's the 'dignity', in spending your final days in a dope haze?

Well, mate, if there is significant pain and the patient isn't smoking dope, then he/she may be on 'legal' opiates which may create their own haze.

The difference is that the Really Big Drug Lobby, the one that funnels all the campaign funds to Washington, makes money on the currently prescribed opiates. If there's anything that the "medical RIAA" hates, it's competition from small-time pot growers.