Aspirin is actually technically a poison which like many other toxic and harmful prescription drugs is effective in a medicinal sense for certain conditions. But that does not make it a true medicine by definition because medicine ultimately is good for you and not bad.
Let us bring forth the word therapeutic. LSD can be very, very therapeutic but by definition I don't believe it could be described as being medicinal. It can be both extremely beneficial and extremely harmful depending on the individual and circumstances. Not directly physically I don't mean but certainly indirectly potentially.
Alcohol has long been claimed to have some positive benefits for health and I certainly would have subscribed before to the notion that there is at least some medicinal action taking place with a good quality red wine for instance which has lots of antioxidants and maybe some other beneficial healing compounds so I believe we could make a genuine medicinal claim.
I'm just making the point that just because something can genuinely benefit you or appear to benefits you that does not mean it is medicinal by definition.
Let us bring forth the word therapeutic. LSD can be very, very therapeutic but by definition I don't believe it could be described as being medicinal. It can be both extremely beneficial and extremely harmful depending on the individual and circumstances. Not directly physically I don't mean but certainly indirectly potentially.
Alcohol has long been claimed to have some positive benefits for health and I certainly would have subscribed before to the notion that there is at least some medicinal action taking place with a good quality red wine for instance which has lots of antioxidants and maybe some other beneficial healing compounds so I believe we could make a genuine medicinal claim.
I'm just making the point that just because something can genuinely benefit you or appear to benefits you that does not mean it is medicinal by definition.