Heya Green,
So as for the whole don't want to see a doctor thing. You kinda have to in my understanding. You can legally possess and smoke cannabis if you can show medical record that proves a chronic condition. Basically if you go to the doc about your insomnia once a month for three or four months then go to the cannabis clinic with those records they will get you a card.
So you have to visit the doctor, but you don't have to try any of the remedies he prescribes if you don't want to. Then when you go to the clinic you just say that all other treatments don't work as well.
Hope that helps. Go easy, and take care. :thumbsup: