Michael T. Dugan, Deschutes County district attorney, recently submitted a piece to the Bulletin outlining why marijuana should not be used medically. He objects to the procedural elements of Ballot Measure 67, but offers nothing to argue that marijuana itself has no medical value to certain patients. Dugan writes that a patient must show that they are suffering from "severe pain " or " severe nausea," (quotation marks his). He then minimizes the very real agonies with which some people are forced to live by using illustrations from his own life. (" I stubbed my toe last week and had a great deal of severe pain," and " My wife had the flu last month and it made me nauseous.") [continues 125 words]