Health committee  That's correct.

Health committee  I can speak specifically to university students who we do research with at UBC. This is generally a high-performing group. Of those students, the rates of cannabis use are similar to what we see in the general Canadian population. We have about 35% to 40% who have used in the pas

Health committee  That study was conducted at Harvard a number of years ago. Based on their sort of comprehensive neuropsych IQ tests, they didn't see any differences between the heavy users, the recently abstinent, and those who were never users.

Health committee  Unfortunately, that's not being done, to my knowledge. One thing you'll see running through the testimony and the research on medical cannabis is that it's incredibly difficult to conduct studies using cannabis, either administering it or clinical trials. There's so much research

Health committee  Certainly, and I don't think anyone would advocate cannabis use for young people. The study that you referred to, the Dunedin study, is one of the studies where substantial concerns have been raised about confounds. With the criminalization of cannabis, we see people who are more

Health committee  Well, I think the good research remains to be done as far as the side-by-side efficacy of cannabis versus other anti-anxiety medications is concerned, but our reports from medical users and non-medical users indicate that cannabis does reduce their anxiety. It's one of the primar

Health committee  I'm familiar with the findings of acute cognitive effects of cannabis intoxication. I'm not familiar with the Ottawa pre-natal study that you refer to, but I am quite familiar with the literature on the cognitive effects of cannabis. My sense of the literature is that the effect

Health committee  Well, not exactly. I think it reflects the confounding effects of people who use one or both.

Health committee  I don't know of any evidence to suggest that marijuana leads to increased suicide.

Health committee  No.

Health committee  I'm a registered clinical psychologist. I took medical neuroscience courses.

Health committee  So, yes.

Health committee  I am not a doctor or a pharmacist, no. A health care professional....

Health committee  Yes.

Health committee  I think I mentioned some of the risks in the rest of my testimony, the ones you mentioned regarding psychosis. I think we're talking about relative health risks and I was speaking specifically about long-term physical consequences when I talked about a relative absence and quot