I'm starting to wonder if you just have some personal vendetta against MMJ. Two shots of whiskey is medicine, but a joint isn't? I don't see the rationale behind that.
Two shots of whiskey, while not prescribed by modern doctors, is a measurable (titratable) amount of medicine and it has a specific effect in any who take such medicine.
A joint, for all the reason's I've laid out, is not medicine. It is not measurable, it has an inconsistent effect based on a number of things. Even the same strain will not have the same effect from patient to patient.
>Medicine is anything that helps someone get better. Simple as that.
No it's hardly that simple. If it were then the snake oil claims would have no basis. The snake oil claims hold water specifically because marijuana and it's extracts are not in any way shape or form "medicine". I am differentiating between eastern and western "medicine". As I pointed out the Chinese call rhino horn medicine, we in the west do not because it has not been tested to do what it is alleged to do.
I prefer the scientific method to claims by witch-doctors. Even Gupta does not claim CBD is medicine, he claims that studying it may lead to the development of a medicine.