Too true. Chronic inflammation can actually cause a myriad of health problems, including heart disease. If you treat the inflammation, you can prevent many of these things from happening in the first place. Cannabis might not be a miracle drug after people have already gotten debilitating effects; it might not be able to completely negate these diseases and issues, but as you said at the very least it tackles a great deal of them from the very root, and further works as one of the best preventatives ever discovered by human kind.
This isn't even addressing the mental health issues that cannabis can help. A recent study showed that the MMJ states had a decline in suicide rates after cannabis was legalized medicinally. I haven't looked through the study thoroughly enough to conclude whether or not it was conducted in an appropriate manner, but from a personal standpoint I completely agree. When you're at the edge of that abyss, cannabis doesn't just gently pull you away; cannabis kicks your ass into laughing at the most ridiculous of things, and pretty soon you've forgotten you were suicidal in the first place.
Cannabidiol (CBD) has also been studied as an anti-psychotic, the type of drugs schizophrenics and bipolar people are wont to use. It was concluded that CBD works as well as first generation anti-psychotics, but CBD doesn't cause diabetes, and other severe and life-threatening side effects.
The crazy part about all of this is that CBD is only one of the many chemicals and cannabinoids found within the plant. Too often I think people refer to cannabis as ONE thing. They think of cannabis like they think of opiates. The problem with this view is that cannabis is actually an incredibly large range of chemicals, and these chemicals all vary in what they can do, and what they can treat.
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