Well I don't live in a medical state, or have a med card, but I use the term medicate because I consider it medicine. I have back, and nerve injuries, and cannabis greatly helps both of those. It also made it much easier for me to get off the chemical pain killers the Drs. had me on after my accident.
Now I agree that I hate when I watch things on tv that show dispensaries and the obvious stoners are in there talking and acting like stoners but then asking about this or that "medicine" almost with a smirk on their faces cus they know they aren't "medicating". That being said, does any of it really matter, without the medical movement we WOULD NOT have the legal states we do, or the spread across the country that has been happening, period! Embrace the change, and the plant so we can work together rather then dividing our community over semantics.