Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
Thank you, Mr. Wilks. I understand that you gave me your time. Thank you very much. It's very kind of you, and collegial, I might say.
I wanted to discuss more about the benefits, because as a physician I have never seen any studies that looked at any drug at all, whether a prescription drug or a non-prescription drug, and did not look at the benefits versus the harms and risks. Because you can only decide on the value of the drug based on the weight of those benefits versus harms and risks.
I just wanted to go back to this. We've heard about—and it's well known—some of the risks to prepubescent mind and prepubescent brains in terms of cognitive disorders, etc. We know of the addictive nature of cannabis. These are all known factors. They're not something that anyone is disputing.
I think, however, that what we are looking at is, what are the benefits that may actually put some of those things into perspective? I wanted to go back because I noticed that you were challenged on the pain benefits of marijuana. I do know that there are many studies I have seen that have looked at neurogenic pain, hence a lot of MS users use cannabis because of the neurogenic pain component of it.
Can you tell me a little more about some of the benefits of marijuana, including for neurogenic pain? You've talked a little about the gastrointestinal uses, but about nausea, how does it work on nausea? Does it work on the brain or does it work in terms of nausea on the GI system and on the neurogenic pain component?
I don't know which one of you wants to take that.