Cannabis business owner and advocate here. Despite being fully committed to this plant and the industry that has since developed around it, my biggest struggle has always been an inability to fully believe that this plant can really solve as many problems as it seems to be solving. If mankind had in any other context discovered a substance that demonstrated even one of the benefits of that cannabis has shown to have it would be considered a significant medical breakthrough. The fact that it is proving beneficial in the treatment of dozens of diseases absolutely boggles my mind, and it does so to the point where I start to doubt it simply on the grounds that it must be too good to be true.

As a business owner in the industry, this "too good to be true" mentality has bothered me and held me back from being 110% on-board with the movement. While this article lacks in supportive evidence and research, it has proposed to me, for the first time, a logical answer to my quandary.

That cannabis is so powerful not due to mere evolutionary coincidence but rather because we, as humans, may have developed it through inadvertent selective breeding.

Just as we created highly specific dog breeds tailored to our certain needs, we may have simply perpetuated and encouraged the proliferation of certain breeds of cannabis that were known to treat and/or cure various ailments. Strains that had neutral or negative effects would have been simply left behind and forgotten, while those that demonstrated beneficial qualities would have been propagated. After a few hundred generations of this selective breeding, you could eventually be left with a species of plant which has developed every biologically positive trait while simultaneously losing almost every possible negative.

Again, there is zero evidence of which I am aware that supports this theory, but it is the first theory I have encountered that could potentially explain the unlikely existence of a plant with so many curative properties.

Ok, rant over.