I don't know why you think I'm "bashing" TCM - I'm merely representing that state of the evidence. I haven't just read somewhere that it doesn't work, what I've said here is representative of the general consensus from the body of literature from the legitimate research that has been conducted on various TCM modalities. The articles you've linked to are fair enough but one is a review and one is ajust an article written by some pro-cannabis dude. They aren't representative of the scientific consensus.

You're correct in that chemotherapy doesn't work well for everybody - however, the rigorous randomised clinical trials conducted for each and every drug used produced sufficient evidence of a statistically significant treatment effect and acceptable side effects compared to either no treatment (placebo) or standard care (whichever was used as a control in the respective trial). This has, for the vast majority of TCM treatments, not been achieved. Specifically, this has not been achieved for cannabis in treatment of any cancers. Some other TCM treatments that have been shown to be ineffective by acceptably conducted trials include acupuncture and moxibustion and echinacea in prevention of the cold.

It is entirely possible that some, or even many, of the individual products used in TCM could and are used in effective treatment of disease. A great many conventional medicines are derived from natural products. Perhaps the best known of these is aspirin, originally derived from use of birch bark as an analgesic. Of course there's penicillin and many other antibiotics which were derived from fungi and other bacteria as well as a number of anti-cancer compounds. Your example of cannabis is an interesting one - there is significant research and trials being conducted into the ant-epileptic effects of non-psychoactive compounds in cannabis. It may turn out that there are many therapeutically useful compounds in cannabis and other plants. But until we have conducted adequate trials to ascertain whether this is the case or not, we should withold approval. Otherwise, anybody could just go around and randomly use any old substance to treat whatever they felt like.

I'm not saying "Chinese medicine is a lie" I'm just concurring with the scientific consensus that until we know whether a specific treatment is effective or not, we should assume that it isn't - yet. That's of course provisional on future evidence.