^ showtime shows the documentary "in pot we trust" that details this program all the time, its not really a secret to those in the medical marijuana community. they follow the dude around who sued them, he gets a tin of 300 joints every month or something shipped from the only legal research grow in America, umiss, that has been frozen for ten years. the weed he is smoking tonight was grown and rolled in 1998.

in the documentary they show him smoking while driving to work. he has a crazy joint tissue cancer that would literally have killed him if he hadn't smoked weed since he got it. weed is literally the only medicine that helps this particular condition of his, and thats why he won the suit, seems back in 1981 federal judges actually had some compassion.

super ultra secret: various non-medical states have programs similar to the federal one, and were enacted around the same time for similar reasons but guess what? THEY STILL TAKE APPLICANTS!!!! they all require passing an approval process from the state, so only people who NEED marijuana for a SERIOUS condition will be approved, and the weed youll smoke will be given to you by a single doctor, usually the doctor that is the head of the states program, and the weed will also be inconsistent and possibly contaminated or grown improperly because most states stipulated that the weed can only come from drug busts.