Sharing prescriptions is also a crime in most (all) states and at the federal level... No joke.
Washington State legalized the use of medicinal marijuana in 1998 for people with terminal or debilitating conditions. Each qualified person was allowed a 60 day supply. I think most people voted for this because most people considered terminal or debilitating as very serious. It turned out that debilitating is is very subjective and just about anyone qualified for a prescription.
After being told by the orthopedic doctor that my wifes shoulder was not repairable she was prescribed opiates which she could only take with anti nausea medications. The orthopedic doctors plan was to keep my wife on pain meds and the thought was she could be on these for a long time.
The lower discs of my back are wedged shape to my left side and this causes alot of pain when it slips.
We decided to see the medical marijuana doctor as our family practitioner didn't prescribe marijuana. We went to a co-op facility in the Seattle area and we both paid $90 to see the co-op doctor. The doctor did ask us if the $90 was ok as I think he wanted to make sure that cost wasn't a factor to getting the prescription. The doctor did a quick physical and ask us questions. The co-op doctor wrote us both a prescription.
We both also received a discount card for the products at the co-op resale store. With the discount the cost of the products were very low. The co-op also had product that they gave away to new members. We ended up purchasing two ounces of different strains of weed for under $200 and we were also given over 1/2 ounce of product and some edibles to try.
We used the weed at night for about a month. The pot is very strong and took very little to have an effect on pain.
Currently in Washington, weed is legal. There are very clean stores all over the place. Unlike the co-op, the prices for product are much higher. There are still co-ops and practitioners who do help to get high quality weed to those in need at a low cost for those with prescriptions.
So we were both legal, lol, not that it would have mattered to me.
Bill