Health committee  Well, your point.... I'm not sure exactly what you mean.

Health committee  Oh, yes. I wouldn't disagree with that.

Health committee  Basically there needs to be a huge education campaign for young people and for families as part of it, similar to what Ian has already mentioned, to have conversations about the actual facts. What are the facts? What are the risks? It's communicating that clearly to Canadians, to

Health committee  If you're speaking solely of respiratory issues, of course not smoking is better, but there are unique risks with the edibles. We're back to the edibles again. For example, youth who are experimenting with edibles may be expecting to feel the effects of the cannabis sooner becaus

Health committee  Not to my knowledge.

Health committee  Let me just say that I completely agree.

Health committee  Yes, I agree.

Health committee  One of the recommendations from the Canadian Paediatric Society is that one way to mitigate some of the risks, because we know that youth and young adults are going to continue to experiment, would be to allow only lower-potency cannabis to be available legally to those under the

Health committee  Yes, a lower concentration of THC, because THC is the psychoactive ingredient.

Health committee  Just to be clear, as I said in my opening statements, there is no safe age for cannabis use. Right?

Health committee  As a Canadian Paediatric Society, we don't recommend, obviously, any children or youth experimenting, because of all the risks I've outlined. In terms of the age of legalization, again, we know that adolescents are already experimenting. The age, whether it's 21 or 25, is not go

Health committee  What I'm suggesting is that obviously that would be a very grave concern. As a physician, getting back to what Ian spoke about, we'd be assessing that young person and trying to understand why. That would be a mark showing that there's something going wrong, most likely, in that

Health committee  It goes back to some of the comments of our first speaker this morning around mandating that young people get assistance, whether from a physician or from some kind of connection with counselling and involvement with the family to understand what's going on.

Health committee  I'm not saying that edibles should be legalized. I am saying there are a lot of concerns about young people and toddlers ingesting edibles if they're around in the household. Even though those childproofing measures you mentioned might prevent harm, having them around is a concer

Health committee  First of all, the CPS statement is based on the scientific literature, not on belief but rather on the facts that we have at the time we're reviewing the data. As I mentioned in my brief, the relationship between psychosis and cannabis is complicated. My understanding of the st