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Health committee I'm unfortunately affected by hepatitis C, which I got in 1982 through the tainted blood system here in Ontario. I can tell you that one of the main reasons for hospitalization associated with liver disease is actually the overuse of Tylenol. You don't need to just look at pres
May 13th, 2014Committee meeting
Philippe Lucas
Health committee No. As I've stated, the evidence suggests that people of higher education and higher rank tend to use cannabis as well. Unfortunately, our drug war focuses on 15-year-old to 25-year-old males. They're the majority target of our current enforcement policies. When I've done stu
May 13th, 2014Committee meeting
Philippe Lucas
Health committee Yes. There is a study in the U.S. that shows a decrease in suicides in states with medical marijuana. They assume it's because of less suffering and the suffering that's relieved by it. You also mentioned higher income and academic achievement. In Canadian polling of medical ca
May 13th, 2014Committee meeting
Philippe Lucas
Health committee I'm saying those are the facts according to all polling—
May 13th, 2014Committee meeting
Philippe Lucas
Health committee It's not a ludicrous connection at all.
May 13th, 2014Committee meeting
Philippe Lucas
Health committee You don't need to believe it, but those are the stats. Those are the facts. It's not a belief system; it's a fact.
May 13th, 2014Committee meeting
Philippe Lucas
Health committee Those are the facts.
May 13th, 2014Committee meeting
Philippe Lucas
Health committee The fact is that—
May 13th, 2014Committee meeting
Philippe Lucas
Health committee —polling of Canadians shows that those who use cannabis have higher income and higher education levels than non-cannabis users.
May 13th, 2014Committee meeting
Philippe Lucas
Health committee It's the Canadian addiction survey. I welcome you all to please look it up.
May 13th, 2014Committee meeting
Philippe Lucas
Health committee That's right. We were talking—
May 13th, 2014Committee meeting
Philippe Lucas
Health committee No one has, and the biggest research project looking at the link between cancer and upper-respiratory-airway cancer and cannabis was done by a researcher named Donald Tashkin. It was funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse in the U.S., and it found not only no link between
May 13th, 2014Committee meeting
Philippe Lucas
Health committee No, I'm not familiar with any study of that, and I would question whether they found cannabinoids in their system, which means they might have used cannabis in the last 30 days—it's one of the most detectable drugs in our system—or whether they were high on cannabis. Clearly the
May 13th, 2014Committee meeting
Philippe Lucas
Health committee No, it's just that alcohol is directly linked to violent crime, to risky behaviour—
May 13th, 2014Committee meeting
Philippe Lucas
Health committee But cannabis does not. In fact, quite the opposite—
May 13th, 2014Committee meeting
Philippe Lucas