> I imagine big pharma has been researching it for decades for sure.

They have, but government regulations have made it difficult for them to put any medications that came out of marijuana research onto the market. One that did hit the market recently is a drug that is helping children who experience numerous epileptic seizures every day; it cuts their seizure activity down to nearly nothing.

Marijuana also helps many with chronic severe pain, and it helps in a way opioids do not, and does not have the serious side effects that opioids do, and this is something I have seen firsthand. I have seen a loved one who is in tears crippled over in back and spinal pain and can barely walk and move take a couple hits from a joint, and 15 minutes later, their pain is gone and they can walk and move and can raise their arms without pain for a few hours. In this way, pot is a miracle drug.