““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.
I don’t know who said “If it were an effective treatment for various maladies with no nasty side effects drug companies would be all over it,” but it wasn’t me.