Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you to the panel for also being here today and in particular, Dr. Hoffman, for being here a second time.
I want to direct my question towards you, Dr. Hoffman, because frankly I'm a big fan of yours. I watched your career in athletics for years. I watched you at the Pan American Games and at the Olympics. You were a household name in my household at least. I wanted to be able to tell my family that I got to ask you a question.
In your presentation, Dr. Hoffman, you had mentioned that the federal government has some unique responsibilities when it comes to public drug coverage. There are various federal departments that manage drugs for the so-called federal populations such as the first nations, the Inuit, members of the Canadian Armed Forces, veterans, RCMP, and a few others here. Just recently in the media there was a report that in particular among veterans the use of medicinal marijuana has increased significantly within the last year. It's actually quite shocking how it's increased. I'm just curious, first of all, to get your insight on that, and then the data on these other departments such as for federal inmates and such. I would like to know if the medicinal use of marijuana is increasing very significantly in these other areas as well.
Could you talk a bit out that, Dr. Hoffman?