Suddenly I Have Such a Pain

Legalize medical marijuana and suddenly you find yourself with a lot of sick people:

In Colorado, where a constitutional amendment legalizing medical marijuana was passed in 2000, hundreds of dispensaries popped up and a startling number of residents turned out to be in “severe pain,” the most popular of eight conditions that can be treated legally with the once-demonized weed.

More than 80,000 people here now have medical marijuana certificates, which are essentially prescriptions, and for months new enrollees have signed up at a rate of roughly 1,000 a day.

While there are undoubtedly some sick people, you just know a whole bunch of these people are just scamming the system to get a cheap high.