With regard to any medication is not the goal to either hide the health issue or to cure the health issue? Aspirin would be a medication that would hide a pain but not a medication that would cure the reason we get the headache. Perfume masks a odor but does not treat the reason for the odor. When one seeks online advice for an ailment a couple of things happen. A home remedy approach is taken. Yourself may misdiagnose the problem and then seek a solution for your misdiagnosis from an unqualified resource. Would CBD or THC not fall into that class as a "mask", such as aspirin, that which relieves a pain but does not serve to cure it?