“If it were an effective treatment for various maladies with no nasty side effects drug companies would be all over it.”
You keep saying that, but it is not true. Federal law makes it a practical impossibility even to conduct research, much less develop products.
““If it were an effective treatment for various maladies with no nasty side effects drug companies would be all over it.”
Read the inserts and warnings on all OTC and prescription drugs. They almost all have “nasty side effects” many of which are far more dangerous and potentially fatal than weed.