I agree fully with wat your saying here.
Strains also are limited in their range cannabinoids and smoking of any kind is always bad.
The potential i am seeing in cannabinoids rather then “medicinal marijuana” is that we can isolate and produce new drugs with exactly the amount and combinations needed.
So exactly like the tinctured and pills you mention that are lacking now.
Rather then trial and error we might be able to one day meassure and profile the natural endocannabinoids in individual people, then build a pill that gives them exactly what they need.
Its probabmy more sci-fi then science at this point but it seems reachable. There are some studies that have shown that certain disorders (adhd, some flavors of autism) do produce less natural endocannabonoids on their own. Currently those people often do end up smoking to self medicate. Some proper science on the topic could really help them.
To add on my previous mentioned little fact about breastmilk cause it is analog to this. There is a suggestion that there is a chemical reaction going n during breastfeeding with milk that flows backwards and tells the mother body how to finetune the milk for the babys current needs.