No, the major reason they are listed as such is that anything less would result in far fewer $$$$'s going to the pharmaceutical companies, who have no interest in actually creating cures, but life long patients.
I've had high blood pressure all of my life. I've taken, at times, up to 5 different medications at once for high BP, and yet those 5 different medications do less to help the high BP than partaking in the devil's lettuce.
Personal experience does WONDERS when it comes to understanding pot. I have a very close friend who has a major seizure disorder. Multiple seizures a day or week. He can take pharmaceuticals that make him sleep 16 hours a day and a complete zombie when he is awake (and still have a couple seizures/week), or he can smoke regularly, function normally throughout his day, and have NO seizures.
Of course, this is hard to believe, until you see it - experience it - personally. It does a whole lot to open blind eyes when it is personal experience.
I said marijuana/THC.... that is what is listed Schedule I psychoactive (the list is extensive btw, and significant, legally).
CBD. Cannabidiol. True medical “cannabis” derived. Zero THC. That’s the ticket. But not the ticket the weed pushers want, can assure you— just saying. All relief— no stone- CBD, and no habituation. Period.
Don’t doubt your anecdote at all. It is the CBD- cannabidiol in the “product” unfortunately (smoked?)— that is the active agent that is clinically significant. It is not the co-present THC psychoactive component (despite many efforts to convince legislators that it is).
Would recommend (unless it is too expensive vs. grow your own weed with it’s tars, carcinogens and ... THC) getting the most pure CBD oil you can (soon to be 99% from Patented Israeli sourced non-THC producing Hemp varietals— see Tel Aviv University). CBD oil and ‘vape’ it. BP reduction, yep, calming yep. Major component of recently FDA approved special indication for seizures. CBC- It is receptor central nervous system mediated, so brain and tissue receptors exist for it and they dominate at receptor level. Why it is confused with THC in the same “dose” which has no cogener action.
What should also be able to be done is... legally purchase CBD only hemp plants so people can afford at a minimum... the CBD effects. Rather think it would be impossible to smuggle out the Patented plant seeds for CBD only cannabis from Israel. Kind of like way back when, when people in the US tried to smuggle out the silk worm larvae as well as the correct mulberry plants to grow them (and the silk they produce) for harvest. Good luck and you are on the track.