Thank you.
You made a comment that there's evidence that marijuana is getting stronger, and I know because there was lots of marijuana in my high school, Bloor Collegiate, when I grew up in Toronto. It was everywhere. In fact there was a lot of LSD around, too. That's when I originally became aware and concerned about the health effects, because I saw my own friends fall by the wayside and drop out of school. Some of them never really came back. Some of them never really recovered, but that's also incidental.
I know that the police told me.... In 1997, I presented a private member's bill as a member of provincial parliament to try to keep drugs out of the schools. They said it's 20 times stronger, the marijuana, than the marijuana my generation had experimented with in high school.
We heard this morning that 20.3% of our youth use this powerful drug at least once a year, and that in grades 9 and 10, where their judgment is really the most immature, or perhaps you could say the poorest, 25% had smoked it in the last year, and 10% to 12% three times in the last 30 days, which would be, I guess, termed as frequent users. So it gets particularly dangerous when they interview these youth and they don't think there are any serious risks. They're not recognizing any risks, including the risk of driving, and we know a significant percentage of young people smoke marijuana and drive automobiles or other kinds of vehicles.
Can you comment on the general health risks to these young people from marijuana?