You have brought up a number of points. It’s a very good question that needs to be considered.
Education means that people must be well-informed. Up to now, there has not been much discussion about it. Since it was illegal, people were doing it in secret. Now, young people, as young as 12 years old, must be well-informed about the effects of the products they are going to be consuming. When they get older and are making decisions for themselves, they will have known for a long time that consuming those products has proven consequences on their concentration and that it could trigger serious psychosis. In the long term, there are some major consequences and some that are less so.
There is a lot to learn about cannabis. We know very little about the product, even though it is widely used. Scientific research has not been done.
Here is a fact for you. We may talk about medical cannabis, but we cannot prescribe a product when we do not know about its interactions, its side effects, and how its strength varies with people’s state of health, age and weight.
Every prescription medication has a Health Canada identification number, a DIN, as it is called. Now we are talking about prescribing a product that is not well-known. That is why physicians are resisting it.