Well, I think we have to start with the notion that cannabis, when properly used, is a medical intervention. As with every medical intervention, whatever therapeutic substance is being used should be kept isolated and away from children, for example.
I don't know that there really is a necessity to have a specific and special educational program for families that are using cannabis over families whose members are using other prescription drugs. I think all of the same cautionary measures apply, with one important distinction, and that is that if a child gets into the cannabis, that child is not going to potentially die. There is no known lethal dose of cannabis, which is not true for the prescription medications that are often in use in the treatment of PTSD or any other medical problem. All of those cautions apply. The side effects of indulgence, overindulgence or misuse can be problematic and may require medical intervention; they just don't require life-saving medical intervention.
I think a military family should be informed to keep the medicines sequestered under lock and key and not available in any fashion to children, and to use them as prescribed or as directed, as opposed to self-medicating. That's an extraordinarily important point. The physician who is administering or authorizing the use of cannabis—because that's what we're talking about—or of any drug has the obligation of informing the patient of expected use and that there is an expectation that those parameters will not be violated.
Simply turning someone over and saying that they can have 10 grams of cannabis and go and use it in any way they want.... I don't think that's appropriate. I think the physician should instruct the patient in proper use and proper dosing and follow up with that patient regularly so that the efficacy and the proper use can be ascertained.