It's not splitting hairs, we are talking about the wording of written law. An ailment and an illness are two different things. It is not ambiguous, as you make it out to be.
The last time you and I got into this, you pulled a shit load of rep points from me. You claimed I was disrespectful. Now I look at your posts and see that you have no basis to back up your own opinion, other than a misinterpretation of the word illness, and your staunch defense of abuse under 215.
You know as well as anyone else that 215 is widely abused. 19 would easily take care of that. Your suggestion that anyone can go get a card is just encouraging further abuse of a compassionate use law. That abuse could cause other states to give pause in their consideration of use laws. In fact, the Florida AG has used California as an example of why he will fight compassionate use laws in Florida.
Vote yes on 19! Not every smoker is ill.....