Symptomatic treatment, not a cure. And, he could have, at any time written a prescription or gotten a fellow professional to do so... for Marinol. Working ingredient.
You could be right, as I don’t even ask about his personal life, let alone his meds.
It just seemed too coincidental, he had several years with increasing trembling, feebleness, and haggard look. All understandable, as my mother went through the same thing years ago. Then, suddenly, within months of passage of legal medical pot use he was the picture of health
BTW, forgot to add that I know that whatever my doctor is doing hasn’t cured him, but it certainly has improved the quality of his life 10 fold for my observations.