And now the the normal american person has learned the truth about cbd oil, the federal, state and local governments want it classified as a drug even though there are none of the typical drug effects which get things listed as a drug. But it works and people know it works especially for control of epilepsy, the pharmaceutical drug cost for from a quick google search - "Valproic acid (Depakene) costs around $240 for 90 250 milligram tablets" - That was from a 2016 article. So there is competition for how best to control epilepsy.

I do not know of one single pharmaceutical drug that does not cause harm of some sort to the body, yes it may help your diabetes, but now we need to make sure we check every 3 months to make sure your kidneys are still working okay, So now even though the diabetes pills are cheap, you have the chance of having to be on dialysis for the rest of your life after we kill your kidneys. Just one of the damned if you do damned if you don't options of one small medicale problem. No doctor pill comes with out side effects to keep them and the drug companies in business.