Marijuana as “medicine” can and should be separated from marijuana the party drug, which means you can’t seriously argue that a blunt of weed is medicine in any legitimate sense
FDA recommends approval of marijuana-derived drug that doesn’t get you high
So that’s it, right? We can end all the nonsense about weed being “medicine” because the properties in weed that get you high are not the same ones that can help with pain relief – and the least efficient delivery method for any substance is smoking it.
Although the primary purpose of the drug is for treating symptoms of epilepsy, doctors would have some leeway to prescribe it for other things.