[rosser]

Trivially difficult. There are MMJ "clinics" that are basically rubber stamps: pay the fee, get your card. The apocryphal story is of a friend of a friend going to the clinic and saying, "So I have this problem, Doc. I can't seem to get enough pot," and being given a card.

It's perhaps not that easy, but it's within delta of that.

[chc]

There are lots of jokes along those lines, but honestly, the marijuana doctors' actions seem pretty rational to me.

The thing is, marijuana is thought possibly to be beneficial for a huge swath of conditions, many of which are primarily self-reported like insomnia and migraines. A normal doctor would probably not give you the third degree you before suggesting a treatment for these conditions either. And since marijuana is largely benign even when it doesn't help, this is not really irresponsible on the marijuana doctors' part. My doctor was advocating a riskier course of treatment when he told me to take ibuprofen!