If you’re not disabled or chronically ill, please sit down and listen to people who are. Lack of ‘medical evidence’ does not constitute a lack of medical effectiveness. The same way that a lack of diagnosis due to medical neglect does not constitute a lack of symptoms.

THC and CBD has always been used by chronically ill people, who were dismissed as drug addicts for using ‘medically unsubstantiated’ herbs to treat their pain. Just because research on marijuana is finally being conducted in recent times and it is being validated as a form of treatment, it doesn’t mean that it only suddenly became effective. It always has been. The only thing that has changed is public perception of it.

It’s easy for able bodied people to point at chronically ill people and claim that everything they do is a hoax or just placebo when they know nothing about how chronic illness works. Listen to them, and treat them as reliable witnesses to their own body.

A medical paper doesn’t dictate the reality of how supplement affects each patient individually. Every person’s biochemistry is unique. It’s especially problematic when modern medicine is rife with systemic bias against certain groups of people. Ask doctors over the age of 60 and ask doctors who recently graduated if they think fibromyalgia is a real disease. It’s disgusting how older doctors don’t even think it’s a real condition and that patients are just ‘faking it’.