Thank you, Chair.
Mr. Lucas, you mixed some terms there that I don't think should be mixed. You made a reference that sounded to me like you were talking about treating pain in end-of-life palliative care, and I think that's a completely different issue. When you take a prescription drug, the question is always, “Do the potential benefits outweigh the potential risks?”, and when you're terminally ill, the risks are minimized.
You also used the term “healing”. Now, I don't know of any clinical evidence or have never seen any that marijuana heals anything.
Mr. Walsh, you claim there's an “absence of evidence” of health risks and harms from marijuana. I have to tell you that all of the experts we've heard from in medicine and pharmacology disagree with you.
Have you conducted any double-blind clinical studies, not on animals but on human beings, that prove any benefits of marijuana by a clinical standard, which is cause and effect?