So I have been thinking about the placebo effect. There is no doubt that it exists, and I'm sure many of you have experienced it in some way shape or form, medicinal or not. This got me to thinking would the greatest placebo of all not be everyone in the world thinking something like advil, just as an example off the top of my head, curing a headache and this being said to have done so for years by doctors and everyone else in the world? I mean, sure there are things in advil and other pain killers that cause reactions in the body, but could these things not happen just because we expect them to? This even seems to me to go along with the law of attraction, you want your headache to dissapear so you take a pill and it does. I mean people have used it for years and it worked so why wouldn't it cause those reactions? Again advil is just an example, this could be the case with anything, even drugs. THC is the active ingredient in weed that makes you "high" and everything with THC does the same because there's THC and that is supposed to make you high. I'm not saying your body doesn't go through the process that makes you feel high but does the THC really cause it? It could just as easily be the act of smoking and expectation and anticipation of the high that could cause it.

Anyways, just a thought. I'm not sure if this is the right board to post this on but I thought it was the best fit so I apologize if you feel differently.