Yes, I know there are a few quacks out there who claim it does, but fortunately for the public we actually have a process whereby the medicinal virtues of various substances are put through rigorous testing.
That actually precludes the drug induced fantasies of such quacks.
Remember: "You don't do ANYTHING better on marijuana. You just THINK you do better."
I'm very anti WOD. Having said that, this statement is not only true, but hilarious. Say Ill, was that the voice of experience?
Yes, but that process does not operate in a political vacumn. In this case, it's been short circuited because of political concerns in the War on Some Drugs. Marijuana is an excellent general-purpose analgesic and appetite activator that has been safely used for millenia. It's cheap, can be administered in multiple forms that patients will accept, and patients find it very simple to determine and adjust an effective dosage.
And, yes, it is psychoactive. So are other drugs that are prescribed. Certain everyday activities like driving, etc., should be limited when you use it, just like hundreds of other drugs.
Are there derivatives of the plant's active agent that could be used? Yes, but why use an expensive commerical pharmaceutical when you can simply ingest an inexpensive plant and get the job done?
The decision to refuse to allow doctors, who are trusted and allowed to prescribe hundreds of other drugs with deleterious effects, not to prescribe this one drug is absurd.