I understand that, so we'll leave the technicalities aside.
The bottom line is that the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that Canadians have a right to access marijuana for medicinal purposes. Doctors are writing, for lack of a better word, prescriptions on prescription pads for marijuana for medicinal purposes.
Veterans Canada is covering and paying for marijuana to be used for the treatment of certain things. For PTSD in particular it has been quite successful, I understand through some of my discussions with veterans, which I think would explain the explosive growth in usage among veterans, particularly those with PTSD.
My question, then, is to Health Canada. Health Canada, another branch of government, is not approving the use of medicinal marijuana for any first nations or Inuit people. Why the discrepancy?