"We have a responsibility as a state and as a legislature and as a government to simply take care of people when they need help," said Rep. Lou Lang, D-Skokie. "Are we really going to be a state where we're going to allow a 75-year-old granny with colon cancer to have to search for a remedy for her pain and her nausea? I don't think that's the kind of state we want to be."