All too often people post a link and no one bothers to click it! They just read a title and maybe get a bit more info from the surrounding sentences and think they know the whole story- when they really don't. I always worry that folks will "just take my word for it" and not learn for themselves!

Your cut and paste was nicely done- all the info was right there for them to read- not just selected bits or a URL. Hard to get just half the story, when it is all right there to read! :thumbsup: No disrespect was intended on my part either!

And, no, not everyone knows about the federal program. There are always new kids showing up on the boards. You gotta admit, the government doesn't really advertise about it's MMJ program! Unless we talk about it every once in a while, the kids will never know about it!

And although only a few patients are in the Federal program, it is still operant- they get their government-grown cannabis. The "machinery" is there! Even with the reportedly poor quality of our (and Canada's, for that matter) "governmental cannabis" several of the patients seem to be far outliving their expected life spans! Very inconvenient for our "no medical use" government. Suing would bring this to light, so of course, they keep it going.

When the government FINALLY gets out of denial about medical cannabis, I am willing to bet that the program will be revived and re-worked. (But who will want their crappy weed?) Rampant expansion of governmental programs is nothing new!

I consider the little federal program like a seed- all but dormant right now, but it just needs the right (political) climate to grow!- Granny:hippy: