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I have seen this beneficial effect first hand and was amazed so I have no objection to medicinal use. In fact why not just legalize it and tax it.

Amazing really is the word for it. It is such a shame that the "stoners" who use it for fun have ruined it for the people who could benefit it from it.

I don't even want to describe the things I have had to go through to get it -- dealing with shady characters and putting my friends at risk to help me get it. Making it legal and taxing it would make it easier for the stoners and I would really not want that. But I just don't see any reason they can't just make it available to the cancer doctors. Or better yet, extract the actual substance (THC) as a tincture, put it in a vaporizer like an E-Cig, and give it to the cancer patients.

I guess you could make it prescription only (and accept there would be some abuse of course). You said cancer can take you slowly, but the effects of the treatment can kill you in a matter of days, how true, I lost a good friend two years ago, he was enduring a brutal regimen like yours, I had an optimistic email from him right before his final session but he died a week later, just couldn't take it any more.

Like you say, a research program to extract the beneficial components would be valuable but I fear it'll be many years yet tho' perhaps other countries might try.