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Bottom line is we are talking about medical marijuana for cancer patients here and state rights to allow doctors to administer treatment without interference from federal overriding legislature.

Addiction isn't the issue here for these cases. Opiates are all horribly addictive but we give them to people with symptoms much less severe than what the average chemo patient is going through. They give much more addictive chemicals to people legally just to help them sleep or lose weight.

Can only imagine how someone who is dying in pain must feel when they are given a medication (marijuana) that actually helps them without causing them to vomit their guts out only to have the feds kick their door in and arrest them on their death beds because it's potentially mildly addictive.

A good portion of the population (10%) simply cannot take opioid based treatments because they lack properly functional enzymes needed to metabolize them resulting in violent gastrointestinal distress.

Same goes with a lot of appetite stimulants which many chemo/aids patients have to take. Many result in severe muscle pain and marinol (synthetic THC) is the only recourse.