Several times a week for the past two years, felons on supervision have asked the Department of Corrections for special permission to use medical marijuana. Some of the requests, which are signed by doctors, are vague, listing chronic pain as the reason for the drug. But others describe agony, anorexia from AIDS or chronic vomiting from chemotherapy. As regular as rain, the state's Department of Corrections (DOC) has turned down nearly all of them. Out of 320 requests, seven people have received permission, a select group that includes a forger wasting away from AIDS and a white haired grandmother named Kathy Parkins with fibromyalgia. A small but frustrated group of advocates, attorneys, physicians and patients say the DOC is ignoring the state medicalnbsp;marijuana law by substituting its judgment for that of doctors who recommend the drug. The policy, they say, is ripe for a legal challenge, although none has been filed. The DOC takes a jaundiced view toward many of those notes recommending medical marijuana.amp;nbsp;
