Veterans Affairs committee  It's an excellent question. Obviously you know the field. There are many components within the THC plant, and we need to study it very carefully. If you study the effects of marijuana, you will know that one strain is not the same as the other because there are different componen

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes, absolutely. I think that's critically important. The fact that people are using it is backed up by anecdotal data. Some people find it highly beneficial, but there is no single large-scale study that looks at the clinical efficacy to see whether it's really effective in a me

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes. I think that's a very important and loaded question, in the sense that what if you were able to detect something, then what would you do? I've had discussions with people in our military mental health centre, and one of the dialogues we have is that if you were to detect s

Veterans Affairs committee  I think one of the studies was about 32 in the treatment group versus matched controls.

Veterans Affairs committee  No. We have—

Veterans Affairs committee  We have not. We do have a treatment program for opioid addiction at The Royal. In terms of the imaging studies, we have not done them.

Veterans Affairs committee  In terms of the imaging studies?

Veterans Affairs committee  No. The imaging facility is a multi-modal imaging set-up that does FMRI, PET, SPECT analysis, as well as EEG right in that same machine. It is highly sophisticated, and we are building capacity to bring experts who can do different modalities of imaging. The PET one you're lookin

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes, it's a very interesting observation and I think an area of concern. No, we have not been asked. What we're doing right now is providing the platform, which for the first five years is strictly going to be for research. Anybody who has a research project and who is interest

Veterans Affairs committee  Absolutely.

Veterans Affairs committee  No, this is a statistically significant effect, and this was the study conducted by Dr. Alex Neumeister at Yale. He's the guy whom we have recruited right now. That's not a study that was conducted on our side per se, but we plan to really expand it much further.

Veterans Affairs committee  That's a very good question, and I'm sorry I cannot answer that because I really didn't conduct that study myself.

Veterans Affairs committee  That's happening in Netherlands right now. It is starting to happen here in Canada, but we are behind in taking measures pre-deployment. There are a lot of concerns about that, because, if you see indicators of vulnerability to PTSD, does that mean that we do not deploy someone?

Veterans Affairs committee  Let me compare it to another condition, such as cancer. If you see a cancer and that it's responsive to a certain kinds of hormones, for example, if it's hyperactive, then what kind of treatment do we use for that particular individual? The treatment is not going to be the same,

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you. I'm very delighted that you picked up on this, because I think we need to invest in research like that. I think there needs to be a centre of excellence, because this is a very important issue and it's not going to resolve itself if you don't pay attention to it. Ju