What I found particularly interesting about this is that instead of trying to make the desired compound in the lab, like most pharmas do, this group is acutally growing the marijuana in "secret greenhouses" (I love that, how hilarious!) so they can extract the desired compounds out of the plant directly.

I've always believed getting things from natural sources is best, although I am well aware of the argument that the compounds made in the lab are chemically identical. Dr. Wahls put it best when she said that to get what she needed from the diet she consumes daily she would have to take over 700 pills a day! And that's just to get the KNOWN good things....there are all kinds of synergistic effects in plants with compounds and phytochemicals and bioflavanoids we have no knowledge of but which are very beneficial and perhaps even necessary for the plant nutrients to work optimally. So we'll see how this works.