Thank you very much to the witnesses for being here today. It's very good testimony.
I want to express the importance of the difference between medicinal and recreational marijuana that you pointed out, because I think everybody around the table wants to ensure the health and safety of Canadians. However, many people using medicinal marijuana are very ill. Before this business, I was a chiropractor, and I saw a lot of people with chronic pain who, after years of non-steroidal anti-inflammatories, had chosen to move into marijuana, with many fewer side effects and much better results. There is definitely a really good role here in our health care system.
Again, looking at the health and safety of Canadians.... People brought up home cultivation and quality control inspection. I know Health Canada.... Even with a huge bureaucracy, we've had issues. You mentioned recalls. There has been marijuana made available to patients that had fungicides, pesticides, and carcinogens in it. The worry is that, even with medicinal marijuana, there seems to be a challenge to make sure that it's inspected and that it's safe.
I want to ask you about homegrown and about quality control. How do you manage that? Is there a difference between home-growing for medicinal use and home-growing for recreational use? Do you have comments on that?