you are both right, baking the cannabis is good only for decaboxylating the cannabinoids, which i guess is 'kind of useful' in the case were the body is not producing its own cannabinoids and its too stiff for anything to flow properly, but this is a two-edged sword, since:

* you are not fixing the underlying issue - the body is not producing its own.

* you are suppressing the body capability of producing - body stops producing anything you supplement from the outside.

* the body is flooded with cannabinoids which turn on and off many things uncontrollably - it makes you feel good, especially when everything was down for long time, but in the long run you will become very unstable.

* your body will become dependent on cannabis for emotional 'balancing', it get used to being relaxed, so its own emotional balancing mechanisms is becoming weak and dysfunctional, just look at all these regular smokers that if one day they dont smoke they lose their shit and they will look for any reason to justify smoking it.

* essentially the main factors that makes cannabis useful is that it gives you some cannabinoids to turn on the endocannabinoid system and that it relaxes your body (which have many many benefits such as better blood, lymph, neurotransmitters and energy (what gives you the effect of 'Fountain of Youth' :)) flow), some oils that can be useful for the body and some alkaline chemistry which acts as anti-acid or anti-inflammatory.

just a warning, it will be fun and games until a point but it will become less and less effective and more and more destabilize you. been there done that. there are better ways to achieve the same thing without all the addiction and crap side effects.