Prescriptions are not required for Herbal remedies. Medical Marijuana is legal by prescription only. The FDA regulates all drugs that are "prescribed" to treat illness or disease. Only Doctors (MDs) can prescribe treatments and the whole process is regulated by the FDA. You can buy herbal remedies over the counter and on the internet.
What point were you trying to make about my argument?
Yes, but we both know that marijuana is only being prescribed in a backdoor attempt at legalization. There’s nothing to distinguish it from other things classed as “herbal remedies”, not even its psychoactive nature. If the government was being consistent, the FDA wouldn’t have any authority over it at all. That’s why your argument about it needing to be tested with the same stringency as synthetic drugs is silly.