It does have well established medical uses.
and doesnt have any bad side effects.
I've never heard that said; anyone who says that is a fool.
If it does, somehow those medical uses have never made it into the medical literature in the form of controlled studies. Anecdotal stories are not evidence.
I read a story recently of a woman who had hyperemesis syndrome for 17 years before she was finally diagnosed. No doubt, one of her rationales for using marijuana all of that time was because she had heard that it calms nausea. In other words, her attempt to self-medicate was causing her problem.
and doesnt have any bad side effects.
I've never heard that said; anyone who says that is a fool.
Apparently, you have never perused the NORML website. It promotes the idea that marijuana is perfectly safe. And NORML has been promoting legalization for decades.