I was just going to comment that almost everything we know about medical cannabis right now, we first found out through patient experiences. I've been working with patients for 20 years and when I started working with them in 1999, we didn't know anything about medical cannabis in the treatment of pain. We knew nothing about CBD being effective in the treatment of seizure disorder or pediatric epilepsy. We knew nothing about medical cannabis and its use for PTSD. Everything that we've learned about this, we've learned from patient experiences and, frankly, science is just trying to catch up now to that patient experience.
Sometimes, I get concerned when we start talking about this level of evidence as simply anecdotal. An anecdote would be if I said to you that my sister's husband said he cured his ingrown toenail with a cannabis tincture. It's very different when we have thousands of Canadian patients citing a specific level of efficacy or finding that they're getting relief from this kind of treatment, so as a social researcher, we cull that community to find evidence.
We need more research, obviously. We're eager to work with the government and academic institutions to do more research, but I get concerned, as I'm sure most physicians would be, when we start dismissing that patient experience. It's exactly what you're saying, Mr. Samson. We need to listen to the patients first and understand their stories and that can help guide the science down the road.