It's not "my" original point. It's from an article that you quoted from to support your position.
And you're mixing up terms. Smoking pot is NOT medicinal. So respiratory disease is not a side effect. It's like saying that because smoking cigarettes calms someone down that smoking cigarettes is good medicine. Both are completely fiction.
The reason that smoking pot is considered "medicine" by some is that the pot industry and stoned leftists want to make it legal. The medicine aspect is just an easier way to do it. They had ZERO success using arguments of freedom. They had ZERO success trying to make the point that smoking pot is harmless. They had ZERO success at everything they tried to get it legalized. Finally some genius said "Hey, why don't we call it medicine, start and fund ballot measures, propagandize the heck out of the issue by using sob stories about how terminally ill people deserve pot, and then when we get the votes we'll implement what we really want...practically unfettered access to legal pot. Boom...success!
I get so mad at people like you CARRYING WATER for leftists. You're being used. Quit spreading the lies and propaganda.
Many medicines have negative side effects - should they all be banned?
Stoners going to "clinics", getting pot and sitting around smoking pot are not medicating.
How is that relevant to your original point about the risk of respiratory disease?
It's not "my" original point.
You quoted it; was I mistaken in assuming you did so in order to make any point ... or are you now ducking and weaving with word games?
It's like saying that because smoking cigarettes calms someone down that smoking cigarettes is good medicine.
The only one saying anything is "good medicine" is the voice in your head. The harm/benefit balance is clearly against smoking cigarettes to calm nerves. Smoking marijuana (which, unlike tobacco, has not been shown to lead to any more serious respiratory disease than bronchitis - "proof that habitual marijuana smoking does or does not cause cancer awaits the results of well-designed studies") has lesser established harm and far greater potential benefit for certain ailments.