> the 'Nays'

If these nay-sayers had the chronic pain like many around the world suffer who are offered only whole-hog, hard-to-dose drugs like morphine and codine to ease their pains, then the cries against the use of this useful plant would be much quieter.
I know personally of someone who was afflicted with a life-threatening problem which made life a constant struggle, but with the help of THC pills imported from the States things were fine until things could be operated.
I don't understand why a country would make people who only want to, say relieve back aches, buy their medicine from a drug dealer and thus promote crime, rather than just roll up a fatty full of understanding, and let the people have something which is cheap to produce and very effective - weed. After all, we all know how much more harmful countless legal drugs in chemists and bars around the world are.