A sugar pill. Doctors used to give them to hypochondriac patients. The patients wouldn't shut up about their "illnesses" and demanded SOMETHING! So the doc would pull out a sugar pill and the give stern warnings about not using too much. Patient shuts up, doctor can get back to finding out if anything is really wrong.

What is weird, is that the symptoms would go away! Sometimes even when there was a REAL problem! That is the placebo effect.

Now, I imagine someone has told you that all of cannabis' healing power is just a placebo effect. If this is so, please have them click the link in my sig! I think I have made the perfect argument that cannabis has much more than just a placebo effect on many conditions and illnesses! Have a great New Year! - Granny:hippy: