The DEA led a raid on a bunch of legal -- according to California law -- medical marijuana dispensaries. The raids resulted in the seizure of thousands of pounds of marijuana. While I am sure some of this pot finds it ways into the hands of the healthy, I think the vast majority is consumed by AIDS patients, cancer-survivors and other terminally ill.

What I don't get it is the hypocrisy of our government. Recently I've been suffering from an "itch." In the span of 5 weeks I've been prescribed 9 drugs to deal with the problem: Ativan (an anti-anxiety drug that causes drowsiness), Atarax (an anti-histamine), Fexofenadine (another anti-histamine), Loratadine (yet another anti-histimine, Fluocinonide (a steroid cream), Betamethasone (a stronger steroid cream), a Pennicilin injection, a corticosteroid injection, and 2 regimens of Methylprednisolone (a steroid).

For an itch.

An itch that turned out to be simply scabies, which is treated with one dose of a lotion. Most of those drugs did no good.

Medical marijuana works. It helps relieve pain, and more importantly, improves appetite that is supressed by the hundreds of chemicals that Big Pharma floods into the veins of the severly ill. Or the moderately ill. Or the people with a sniffle.