Health committee  The evidence is really clear on this issue that cannabis is not criminogenic. Mr. Kerlikowske is not an MD. He's a former police chief of Seattle. What he's referring to are blood plasma levels showing past cannabis use, not present cannabis use that was there when the crime was

Health committee  I think Dr. Ware's study, which was done at McGill University and clearly looked at chronic pain and the treatment of chronic pain, was a Canadian-funded—funded by the Canadian government—double-blind study, peer-reviewed and published study. It showed that cannabis was very effe

Health committee  In the treatment of pain.

Health committee  Well, you mentioned the treatment of pain, so that's why I thought we'd discuss the treatment of pain.

Health committee  I agree. That's why I stated it.

Health committee  In my experience, for the treatment of conditions that are otherwise orphan conditions, we don't have a lot of good treatment modalities, including conditions such as Crohn's disease, irritable bowel disease, or irritable bowel syndrome. Cannabis appears to be a very effective tr

Health committee  I think that ultimately you would have to have concerns...well, I think that everyone has concerns over youth use of cannabis. I think that's the primary concern I have, both as an adult and a former high school teacher and child care provider. So I think that any policies that c

Health committee  —that a public health-centred policy would be useful.

Health committee  I've never said that there was no health risk at all associated with the recreational use of cannabis. It's an intoxicant and, like any intoxicant, it carries a potential health risk.

Health committee  On the health risks while under acute intoxication, I think we've discussed this at this table and we've heard about this. It affects attention span. It affects memory and learning during the execute stage—so while you're under the intoxication of cannabis. Those would be a conce

Health committee  It would cause tremendous harm. There are, as has been suggested, 50,000 Canadian patients enrolled in our federal medical marijuana program. That is the tip of the iceberg of the actual Canadians who are using medical marijuana in Canada. The official estimates are that, among C

Health committee  No matter what the primary condition is that people use cannabis for, a primary symptom that they always report getting relief from is chronic pain. The primary symptomology beyond that includes better sleep, lower anxiety, and stress relief. So there's no doubt in my mind that

Health committee  I think it's indisputable at this point. The amazing thing is not only that it helps people treat the symptoms of the disease, but that it helps people treat the symptoms and the side effects associated with the treatment, so what we see are actually better treatment outcomes.

Health committee  I'm a medical cannabis researcher and an addictions researcher, so my responses are based on scientific literature and experiences with medical cannabis patients as well, but frankly, I wouldn't cite anything that I didn't think could be backed up by peer-reviewed literature. Tha

Health committee  I would suggest that under the new system, the MMPR, it absolutely is the case. I work for a medical marijuana producer and distributor named Tilray, and if we get any adverse reporting at all that comes from the use of our cannabis, we need to report it back to the Canadian gove