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`Of or relating to pharmacy or pharmacists.`

You probably aren't getting marijuana from a pharmacy and no pharmaceutical company has a patent on marijuana, which I think both technically and colloquially puts it well outside of the realm of pharmaceuticals.

Exactly, a different one. This article is more about stock prices, linked to a study that concludes cannabis is as a new competitor in drug markets.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

By that definition everything you eat is a pharmaceutical. Everything you eat has some effect on you.

it's true though, everything you can consume has an effect on you not unlike pharmaceuticals. we just classify them differently. and as a corollary, anyone that can make money off of that effect, will

This is obscurantism. If there’s no difference between marijuana and food, what’s with all the excitement and advocacy?

OP’s point seems to be pretty reasonable to me. If marijuana is outcompeting established anodynes it implies they are in the same category.