That's true, of course. It's also a true statement about essentially EVERY medical drug. Re-read what you wrote. It's true of every drug from aspirin to morphine, and certainly any psychotropics. No drug is a cure-all, they all have specific areas where they are effective and many more others where they are not.
Any idiot who actually thinks pot or any other drug is a "magic panacea" should be ignored. Raising that kind of argument against any one drug whether pot or aspirin is just foolishness.
Pot might be shown to be a useful medicine in some circumstances. Why is that so surprising?
Tincture of marijuana used to be part of the USP.
The drug abuse plague of modern years is a result, I firmly posit, of abandoning the love of God. Especially as it applies to the honoring of the body (the offering of the body to God). When the body was offered to God, pot was a medicine. Now pot’s a trip to a land of who knows what gods.
No worldly law can do SQUAT about that situation. It is a matter of EVANGELISM but IMHO it needs a new evangelism that emphasizes the power of heaven. Getting scared into heaven by hell is really a final resort in God’s plan, it does work, but it reflects a stunning lack of Christian insight.
I don’t think I argued that what I said about marijuana didn’t hold true for other drugs. In fact, I think if you take a second look at my original post, you’ll see we are basically on the same page here.
Of course no drug is perfect, or treats all things. I was just making reference to the endless claims of marijuana being some sort of super-drug by some of its advocates. THC and CBD have some documented/proven uses, no question. It also has a lot of claimed benefits that haven’t been scientifically verified. Epilepsy is one of the latter. CBD may help in some cases, but the evidence that it is an effective treatment for epilepsy is very mixed at best.
Other claims I’ve seen border on the patent medicine sales pitches of a century ago. Weed can cure everything from acne to impotence, if you believe some of the pro-legalization sites. These claims always talk of “potential” benefits and never seem to have much in the way of reliable scientific research to back it up. Thus, I maintain folks who pursue marijuana as “The Cure” for a malady it can’t really help with are chasing Fool’s Gold, after a fashion.