Tony Abbott (Aussie Prime Minister) recently announced that they are going to look at cannabis oil for cancer patients and pain and other medical issues - I think he intends to set up a research council on it. Hopefully it will be found to be efficacious and be put into use for those who need it - I am sure God meant the plant to be put to good use and maybe not just for rope and hard wearing pants!
Indeed! Using the nature provided pharmocopia has long been exploited by the big pharma companies in the form of "new" discoveries.
Do you remember the cancer "cure of the monent" derived from,as I dimly recall, a species of yew bushes?