Oh, alright. I thought you were misunderstanding me, like a couple of other folks did.
On the sympatheticalness* of people using marijuana for relief of severe or chronic pain; yes, if the public saw the issue that way. My feeling, which could be wrong, is that most Americans will see the med.-marijuana advocates as simply pot-heads or crack-pot libertarians, even if they happen to agree with them. I hope I'm wrong.
I'm still not convinced that liberty dies because people will not fight a war over an issue like this. As Jefferson said in the Dec. of Ind. itself, "mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed."
*I get to make up new words, because I have that power.