Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
First of all, Mr. Selby, thank you so much. You really had a jam-packed presentation there. I was madly taking notes, because your brief hasn't been circulated yet because it did come in late. But hopefully we'll get it later.
First of all, I do want to say thank you to CAMH for coming out with a public, and I think very rational, position on marijuana. I think we have so much evidence to show that prohibition of any substance is very problematic. We basically drive it underground and into organized crime. Regulation is better than no regulation. Regulation is better than chaos. So I very much appreciate the position that CAMH takes from a public policy point of view.
In terms of e-cigarettes, I hear the same approach coming through here, but I just want to get a couple of clarifications from you.
You said earlier that the risk reduction is not yet known. I want to ask you if that includes e-cigarettes that may have nicotine and may not, so it's both sides of the equation?
Secondly, a little bit later on you said something about promising research that points to youth not going on to cigarettes from e-cigarettes. I'm not sure if I heard that right, so if you could just say that again....
Thirdly, if there's time, I'm very interested in your proposition that in the long term we actually need to look at switching or actually prohibiting cigarettes and moving to replace them with something like a new regime under new technology. I just wonder how far away you think we are from that. Is that actually a feasible thing to do? Is it possible to switch people over?
I get the points about research. We need to do the research, We need to look at the long term and the short term. I think these are all excellent points, but could you just clarify the things that I asked about?