It's a similar sham in Australia here. They allow medical cannabis since a few years ago but
if you can find a doctor to prescribe it you will struggle to fill the prescription. Then you'll pay 10x black market value for it and be marked as a drug user. This is fine if you are rich and disabled, stage 4 cancer sort of stuff, but if you still want to function just forget about driving a car because any amount of THC metabolite in saliva or THC in blood serum automatically puts you as DUI. As it can hang around for weeks or even months in your system you are better off not drawing cross hairs on yourself for roadside drug testing. Much safer and cheaper to just buy what you need on the darknet, ironically.
Such a facade.
The nearest we ever come to knowing truth is when we are witness to paradox.