These days nearly everyone where I was born has a private medical prescription for government bud so the police don't even bother anymore.
That's interesting, can I ask what country you live in?
I'm pretty sure I'd be able to qualify easily for legit medical cannabis, on account of my anxiety and Autism, with each one being a qualifying condition for medical weed here in the UK.
But the whole thing is a shockingly expensive and lengthy process to have to go through over here.
It's so much cheaper and easier via the black market. The only problem is that black market weed tends to be very high in THC, and low or practically non existent in CBD, as that's what most customers want.
But for things like anxiety it's better to have higher CBD and lower THC, which is much harder to get on the black market, than it is on the legit / legal medical sites. That is the only advantage of the legal option as far as I can see. But even so there are still too many hoops to have to jump through, and the costs are far too high.
Hopefully the costs will come down in time. I'd like to go via the legal route if possible, as there would be one less thing to worry about potentially getting busted for. Although a bit of weed is very low down on the police's priorities, where I live. It's so common and prevalent here that they'd be dealing with many thousands of cases, if they decided to target weed users.