In a few states it is legal , however everything comes at a price and big pharma has decided that the most effective and gentle acting tolerable and available medication not be used for that unless you are independently wealthy , after passage of the laws the price of 1 gram of the medication went from under $50 to over $5000 thanks big pharma , your every much of sucking chest wound i thought you to be ,doctors are researching an effective alternative but are so far coming up with not much , either because its noxious or burns the mouth a bunch of other things that patients do not want , like more suffering for the right to terminate life ,in many places in Europe euthanasia is legal and big pharma can't price you out of the market, America is also obsessing over the fact that it can be done legally for any medical or psychiatric reason that causes great suffering and pain of any kind , America is "deathly" afraid of "drive in death" for grannies dementia because they are afraid it will be exploited and used against vulnerable people who have become "inconvenient" to families because of the need for care, that so far is proving paranoia there have been no abuses of this thus far ,as patients have to request this assistance three times from a doctor then usually two other indepent physician will examine the patient and as long as you can verbalize awareness of why you are suffering be it physical or psychiatric, Europe has a much more enlightened perspective on accepting when the patient says enough is to much , they don't try and tell you your pain is something else , or any of the games people play trying to dodge the issue , they very much believe that there is no scale or test to quantify a person's suffering , it's not your suffering and even if it was people don't handle suffering and pain the same way . Humpty please take care ,you are a nice person you very often post things that make me think ! .