My feeling on this sort of subject is, having receptors for particular chemicals is not necessarily a reason to assume that using those chemicals is beneficial — The opioid and nicotinic receptors might be examples.
Of course, some receptors may have beneficial effects, and they should probably be investigated thoroughly
I understand how cancer works (although I'll take your word on the ID1 thing, because I don't know about that), and if what you say about the effect of THC and CBD is true then things do indeed look hopeful.
However, has this effect been demonstrated in humans, or indeed in any live animals? (I mean in proper large-scale trials.) And if it has, how long were the subjects monitored for afterwards? I think answering these questions will probably be a turning point, and that until then it will impossible to say with any certainty whether it works or not. And proving the claim of it never coming back will need even more trials and research.
Even if it is demonstrated in humans (and moving slightly outside the scope of the discussion), to get anything to the point where it's available as a a 'medicine' it has to be shown to be effective, without harmful side effects, and (I think) at least as good as the current best in class treatment. That's definitely not going to happen without those trials, and probably more on top.
I think that's the whole problem, really, nobody has done the trials. I'd love to see them performed, but I don't see it happening particularly soon
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