Here in CA, MM is a total joke and a fraud. Check out the dispensaries. You have a sore leg. They give it to you.
Meanwhile try lighting up a regular cigarette, they call the SWAT team out on you. Total BS if you ask me.
Still not a joke in other states, nor to those in CA with genuine medical need.
Yes: it's total BS to call a SWAT team out for either a regular cigarette OR a joint.
And whether marijuana has any medicinal value to YOU is irrelevant. There are plenty of Free Americans who think that it has medicinal value, but even if it was purely recreational, there is no validity to its criminalization.
The hysterical Prohibitionist mind is a wonder to behold with its ludicrous rationalizations for oppressing others.
And Prohibition Law, of course, necessarily requires big government in order to enforce it, with the attendant disregard for the Fourth Amendment via no-knock warrants, searches without probable cause, asset forfeiture, etc.
Prohibitionists simply don't believe in minimal government, and are deluding themselves if they think they do.
Threatening an adult with prison for possessing the wrong plant, medicine, or liquid spirits is ludicrous, and about as anti-Liberty as it gets.
Right wing authoritarians and left wing authoritarians would have the rest of us choose between their competing versions of Tyranny, and settle for whichever seems more palatable.
No thanks. I'll take NEITHER of those phony options. An individual's pursuit of happiness is not subject to the statist dogma of nanny-state authoritarians.
There is Authority, and there is Liberty.
Arbitrary Law is Illegitimate, whether fomented by a group of leaders or a mob.
I prefer actual Freedom, with all of its "scary" hazards and challenges.
And all the authoritarians can continue trying to outdo each other with their self-righteous, "well-meaning" non-freedom.
Education, not legislation.