7 Ways New York's Medical Pot Law Could Be the Worst Yet
New York's long-delayed medical marijuana program finally rolled out this month, not with a bang, but with a whimper. What looks to be the country's tightest medical marijuana program has an extremely limited number of producers and retailers, a tiny number of eligible patients, a dearth of doctors, and forbids both smoking marijuana and using edibles.
For patients and advocates, the very limited arrival of medical marijuana in the Empire State is not the end point they hoped to achieve. Now, instead of resting on their laurels, they will have to continue to fight to make the program one that actually serves the needs of New Yorkers.
"It's a start," said the Drug Policy Alliance's Julie Netherland, until recently the deputy director of the group's New York Policy Office, where she was deeply involved in massaging the law through the legislature and past a reluctant governor. "It's the first time New Yorkers can legally purchase medical marijuana, and it’s the result of the hard work of thousands of patients and family members across New York."
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and was going to try medical MJ but who knows if I will be allowed, I stopped taking oxycodone over a year ago and I fear that will be used against me since I was able to survive this long. It may just be cheaper and much easier for me at this point to try to "score" some on the streets. 
my wife asked her MSK oncologist for a mm prescription for joint pain and the doc's response was, and i quote: "i don't want you to become an addict, you can take vicodin"
