Claim: "Eighty percent of those who have applied for licenses have no cancer, no Parkinson's disease or glaucoma. They have nothing you would associate  the use of medical marijuana."
Fact-check: 80% of people who apply for medical marijuana don't have qualifying ailments, Patrick Kennedy says
Verdict: half-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Michael Mckinney
Date published: 2013-02-03T00:00:00