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If they are unsubstantiated, why are lawmakers going out of their way to allow it for use as a medicine for children? There would have had to have been some kind of research done to prove that they were in fact beneficial in treating ailments.
Politics has little to do with intelligence or fact finding. The main reason politicians are willing to allow CBD to sneak through is that it is the path of least resistance. If the politicians were trying to actually solve a problem they'd end the drug war. But clearly they are not trying to do that, they prefer to keep the status quo. Instead they are proclaiming to be willing to satisfy the growing medical marijuana movement without having to actually legalize pot.
CBD comes from HEMP and WEED but THC only comes from WEED. So the politicians can legalize the hemp without legalizing the "evil" THC. Further, there are lobbiests coming out of Denver who are attempting to get all politicians on the CBD wagon and off the THC wagon because they want to control the recreational marijuana market.
Imagine if you were the largest producer of marijuana in Colorado (say you did $50 million last year). Would it make sense to open recreational stores and production facilities all around the country or instead just get all the other 49 states to keep pot illegal while they "study CBD"?
Don't misunderstand me, I like weed. I am a fan of recreational weed and with a handful of friends we passed recreational marijuana laws in our county. Marijuana is powerful, but it's effects are inconsistent from strain to strain and patient to patient and for that reason alone is cannot be called medicine.
In fact I love weed soooo much I am in the process of building the largest marijuana production facility in the world.