I think that we've mentioned some of the conditions that I think are the most promising and the most challenging to treat that we can look at with cannabis. There is ongoing cancer research around the world including on its relieving effects and the anti-tumourific and anti-carcinogenic effects of cannabis and cannabinoids, including tumour reduction in glioma patients, breast cancer patients, and breast cancer cell lines. I think those are very promising areas that deserve more attention. I don't know many families that haven't been affected by cancer, so personally I think that would be a promising direction.
There is also growing interest right now in using non-psychoactive forms of cannabis with higher CBD, or cannabidiol, in the treatment of childhood seizure disorders. Some of you may be aware of circumstances where there are parents right now who are seeking access to cannabis supplies that are low in THC, which is the psychoactive in cannabis, and high in CBD to treat seizure disorders of children as young as two who are having up to 100 seizures a day and whose lives are literally threatened by these seizures. So far the findings have been very promising, very anecdotal, and not very scientific yet. But I think when it comes to parents who are desperate to save their kids' lives, that's an area that we absolutely need to look at and move forward in.
Also we mentioned post-traumatic stress disorder earlier. My personal research at the University of Victoria, my research interest, is looking at medical cannabis patients' patterns of use. We still don't know the most basic science around how Canadian patients are using medical cannabis. We have 50,000 Canadians right now who are using medical marijuana. I can't tell you, for example, how much the average patient using it for MS uses it per day. I can't tell you their strain preference, if they have a preference of one strain or another. We don't have even that kind of basic information, so that's part of my Ph.D. work right now, looking at a thousand Canadian patients and following their use over a year's time to gather some of that basic information.