Originally posted by jcdoss Because science in general operates via federal or corporate grants to generate the desired answer.
And there's lots in pills besides active drug. Did you know that? And without knowing what's in the natural product, how can one say what's desirable or not? The purification process may end up discovering other compounds that are also "desirable," which then are put into more pills...
This is getting off-topic fast, but here goes anyway.
-Being a scientist myself (PhD in optics/physics, fair amount of experience in R&D, both academic, in government labs and in the industry) I do have some knowledge of how "science" works, yep.
-There are other components in a pill, correct. These are well known, generally always the same, and not the topic of this discussion.
-By "desirable" I meant "what the company desires to put in their pill".
-In the particular case of cannabis, its constituents and their roles/actions/effects are very well known. Isolating one is not alchemy.