[Cerek the Barbaric]

I stand corrected on the ability of doctors to prescribe marijuana. I suppose I should have said they can recommend the use of marijuana, but that might even be too strong a term. Still, having worked in a hospital setting for 12 years now, I honostly thought they could prescribe, recommend, advocate, {or whatever} the use of cannabis to relieve the pain of cancer - but only in extreme cases. I do know for a fact that they can prescribe morphine in as large (and frequent) dose as needed to relieve pain if a case is terminal. They are allowed to make the last hours or days of the person as pain free as possible (at least in NC - I've seen this happen personally).

As for the complexity of the cannabis issue - I'd be interested to hear what the complexities are. As a non-user, I saw no problem with the way the email page was set up....but as we've just seen, I can be wrong.......occasionally.