Cost is a fair point to address, none of it is cheap.
Just like those pills didn't have the desired effect on you, I would imagine that buds don't have a positive affect on some people either.
In turn those pills do help some people, just like buds do.
Seems to me that each side could be happy for the other that they have found something that works for them.
I guess I just don't understand why that is so hard to accomplish.
I agree! If someone is hurting like hell and pot helps them, no legislator or judge should stand in their way of getting it just because its use offends the morals of some people. What I don't understand is you have medicines like Morphine, OxyContin, among many others that are legal and are FAR more potent and addictive than marijuana, yet marijuana is illegal for anyone to possess. I don't understand why all of those who believe pot should remain illegal don't protest the legality of all the strong narcotics that are being used by prescription. It really is crazy.