Most Cannabis you smoke has only THC with maybe a tiny bit of CBD, maybe.
I don't believe smoking is the healthiest way to ingest it anyway, unless you need immediate relief for certain things, or if you have lung problems. And most people ignore the health benefits of hemp, hemp oil and hemp seeds. If it was legal we could study these things, instead of relying on USA inc. for info.
As was mentioned in the CBD thread (thanks suby), how many well-meaning breeders have equipment to test thc/cbd levels? https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=116792
Hemp (which has more cbd) seeds are sterilized upon import, putting us in the unique situation where viable MJ seeds are easier to find than Hemp seeds.
If we can put less emphasis on stoner couch lock, and more on maximizing the health benefits of Cannabis Sativa, Indica, and yes, even Ruderalis, then maybe we can prove Rick Simpson was not a conspiracy theorist.
Possibly if we made hash oil from one THC-Heavy strain and mixed it with hash oil from a CBD-heavy strain and hemp oil from hemp seeds, and we ate lots of it, we would be in business.
Cannabis has over 90 Cannabinoids, you need different ones for different medical indications, you don't need all 90 for anything I know of, but there is no Cannabis that has all 90 anyway.
-SamS
Well, mother nature put them there for a reason. We should find out why. There are compounds in cannabis that we still don't understand because official policy is to stick our heads in the sand and pretend there's no medical benefits. I believe big pharma understands the plant, but their research is private, so I can't say. IMO they don't want their medicine to be too effective. Healthy people are not good for business.
Isolating compounds from plants that have been used as medicine for thousands of years while discounting the rest of those compounds you don't understand is ignorance, neglect, and in some cases greed.