Our third takeaway is that hundreds of people want access to medical cannabis but are denied it because their conditions don't qualify. Consider Angela Bond, who purchases edible cannabis products for her autistic son, Dalton, 17. When we spoke, Bond showed me a CVS bill for all of Dalton's medications. Now, with the help of medical cannabis, she has weaned her son off most of those pills. "Since he's been on the cannabis medication," Bond told me, "Dalton has had fewer fits. He's no longer rolling on the floor, ripping his shirt, breaking walls and windows in our house, and he can talk to people. He can look you in the eye and he can even verbalize things." Now, the problem: Autism is not on the list of qualifying conditions in Illinois; Dalton qualifies for his cannabis card only because he also suffers from seizures.