In Canada the top two reasons for making cannabis available are MS and Cancer. It's one of the few things our health care system has right IMHO. My experience as a former very regular user is that it just kicks the shit out of anything made by Pharma or out of the poppy plant. I encourage people to use under the correct circumstances as its benefits far outweigh its negatives. It should be legal for those with legitimate medical needs.

I smoked a fair amount of grass in my younger days but now find that the cannabis available these days is much too strong and makes some of my symptoms worse (balance weakness in the legs ect) perhaps if they legalised it the milder weed of my youth would make a comeback. Alas the legal forms of cannabis like Sativex are all but impossible to obtain on the NHS.