The majority of people who use medical marijuana, that has been RECOMMENDED to them by a doctor, don't do it to get high. Sure you're always going to get the bad apples with "back injuries" that will get their card so they can get stoned without getting into trouble. But for a cancer patient it can mean being able to eat without vomiting from the chemotherapy, or to be able to sleep for more than an hour before the pain wakes you up.
And you're right I don't know how much you know about drugs, and I really don't want to know either. I just know that I am a caregiver for my cancer patient father and I've seen how much pot has helped him. All the so called statistics in the world won't change my opinion on what I've seen with my own eyes.
And by calling a cancer patient a pot head shows me that you lack compassion because of things you've experience in your own life with drugs. If it works for a person who are you to judge? Who is Wal-Mart to judge what medication a person can take to work there, especially if they don't use it while they are on company time. If the state of Michigan, as fucked up as it may be, gives a person a card saying they can legally take a substance to help them with pain, who are any of us to judge?
I just don't think it's fair that this man is now going to lose his health insurance which pays for all his other medications, because Wal-Mart doesn't agree with what kind of medication he takes.