>>http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/feb/01/medical-marijuana-use-colorado-kansas-veteran-custody-battle
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>>US veteran hasand chronic pain and PTSD, only thing that seems to really work for him is marijuana. Since it's illegal in Kansas (even medical marijuana), he decides to move his family to Colorado. Kansas gets wind of this plan - and takes his kids away from him. How freakn stupid can Kansas be?
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>This is a topic I often debated with John Harvey. For all the things we agreed with, this was one where we disagreed strongly.
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>I've read numbers where as much as 25% of people with long-term chronic illnesses wind up feeling better after taking medical marijuana, compared with other painkillers.
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>The one thing wonder about - just hypothetically - had this man gotten medical marijuana from a doctor in a state that DIDN'T have laws making recreational marijuana use legal, would the state of Kansas taken his kids away.

I think this is part of the problem - it's the fact he was planning on using marijuana in general - they don't seem to give a crap of how or why.

>The legalization in Colorado has backfired in almost every way imaginable, and this now seems to represent further damage.

I don't agree with this assessment. Yes there have been some issues - but this whole concept is new, so there will naturally be kinks that need to be worked out of it. It DID result in millions of dollars for the schools - which is more than I can say for Kansas, which has had their idiot governor take SO MUCH money from the schools there (zapped another 45million out of it just a couple weeks ago) that now unless something major happens they don't even have enough money to operate the schools after end of July!

>This drug should remain illegal and only dispensed by a licensed physician.

Well ...we partly disagree on t hat. I think it should be legal in the whole country. When you have it like it is now, where it's illegal in some places, partly legal in others, and yet completely legal in some, then you end up with stupid crap like this story happening to people. The reason for the resistance is money. Law was passed to make same sex marriage legal - but no one is going to loose billions and billions of dollars because same sex marriage is legal. But if you make pot legal, then the billions and billions of dollars that go to the DEA, lawyers, police, prisons (which have a very disturbing growing trend of being privately owned) will end. Kansas is just plain wrong on what they've done here.