Seems a broad brush to paint with. I have never in my 37 years of life smoked pot - not once. But I was in tremendous pain and would have tried it had my doctor given it to me. My employer would have had a tough time firing me, as I was injured at work (they later did fire me, but then settled out of court when a three judge panel found I was in the right, and their own doctor showed I was seriously injured).
I had nights where I took upwards of 10 pills in an hour to control the pain, way above what I was supposed to take a day. I am better now, but had I known pot helped with pain I probably would have tried that as I can damn near frying my liver (my liver my liver!).
can should be came, time for more meds ;)
I don't have a problem with people being pot heads either, or employers deciding it is not something they want in their workplace - any more then they want alcohol in the workplace.
I don't blame anyone for trying to relieve pain. But this whole medical use of MJ thing is a side door effort to legalize addictive drugs. Too bad people fall for it.