I think that this is great... To an extent. We need to understand that this is not a ONE SIZE FITS ALL.A LOT of patients are in such DIFFERENT circumstances. No offense to states or its wonderfully hard working employees, but I have seen how mine fails to embrace this, and has left us with a faulty system. The reason why this has been carried out by the people not our elected officials, is because we got sic of being sic... People are running out of time and instead of stepping up to the plate, I have seen road blocks and speed bumps!? I DO NOT want mine or my fathers (patients) medicine in the hands of others. I want to know what this botanical treatment has been through; from sprout or cloned stock to dried and usable. Usable not JUST for inhalation, but for leaf capsules, edibles, etc... This is NOT ABOUT "an invitation to lie and cheat and use the guise of a medical-marijuana..." This is about A LOT of REAL LIFE problems, and A REAL LIFE SOLUTION. To those who disagree, it is only a "unsavory underground drug culture" until you have to turn to a more sensible solution for treatment and end up on the side lines of this war on our own people over the consumption of a plant... The end to this fight is near, as the AMA has just issued a change in stance on its position of "marijuana" or Cannabis (Sativa/Indica) and its medical acceptance for it to me moved to a schedule II substance for further more adequate research.

The AMA also said that it should be a medicine durived from the plant. Not in raw plant form. Most of the so called patients won't like that the smoke screen will be taken away.

Smoking is not healthy regardless of what is being smoked, tobacco or marijuana. There is synthetic drug, Marinol that can be prescribed for legitimate medical needs. Medical marijauna is a smoke screen for people to obtain this dangerous drug and become one more person with a drug problem.

The AMA joins the American College of Physicians, and numerous other medical organizations in calling for rigorous scientific research into cannabinoid medicines (which unfortunately, the US Government has been systematically blocking until now). The only smoke screen that will be blown away by this research is the pretense that cannabis presents some kind of huge danger to our society. With regard to the harm from inhaling particulate matter, luckily there is an ongoing development of vaporized and ingestible delivery systems so smoking won't be necessary.

We are a DOT Testing agency here in Colorado. Has everyone forgotten about Marinol? We already have medical marijuana. It seems logical to me that Marinol would be preferred as opposed to inhaling all the carcinogens with smoking!! Just a thought.