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It may depend on country, but in situations I have seen, the patients were not able to receive enough morphium to stop the pain most of the time. There were limits on how often they can get a pill, and if I remember correctly, it was once in a few days, but the pill only worked for a few hours.
The limits on how much morphium one can get are probably motivated by trying to (a) minimize the risk of addiction, and (b) avoid health damage. Both of that is nonsense if we speak about a person who obviously only has a few weeks of life left and zero chance to recover.
If we could ignore these limits, I don't really care whether morphium or marijuana or anything else, as long as it works. But currently, those limits exist.
Higher doses of morphium aren't given per pill but intravenously.
As far as I understand in Berlin where I live a patient who's in the hospital and in pain usually get's more morphium if he asks for it.
From a medical perspective it's much easier to dose morphium than to dose marijuana smoking.