[dghughes]

Isn't medical marijuana lower in THC? It's not the THC that is the benefit it's the cannabidiol.

If so why are some people (not all) who are supposedly "sick" trying to get low THC pot?

Although these days with very strong pot low could mean 10% THC.

[sim0n]

I believe THC and cannabinoids other than CBD do have their own medical benefits - they're just not publicized as much. Most probably because THC is psychoactive which a lot of people aren't comfortable compared to CBD which doesn't have the same sort of "high" effect.

[zhengyi13]

Not necessarily, particularly depending on what you specifically want to treat.

If you go poking around weedmaps.com (well, after their site starts functioning again :/), and look into strain-specific details there, there absolutely are low THC strains available, and also amazingly high THC level strains. High and low CBN/CBD, etc.

In addition, they have some space dedicated to breaking out the main/known active contituents in MJ, and what they're believed best to affect.