Veterans Affairs committee  I can only speculate what's going on. I wonder if the legalization of recreational use and the decrease of our resistance in terms of using marijuana have influenced the physicians' opinion of using it. You can buy it anywhere, and it's not a prescription drug, then it must be s

Veterans Affairs committee  I think this is the challenge of being a psychiatrist. Why? Because even though we have evidence for a lot of things, even for current medications, they might not necessarily work for individual patients. That's why we follow the guidelines made by a majority or a body of psychia

Veterans Affairs committee  I think Dr. Busse can probably answer this as well. Very briefly, I'm thinking that it's because marijuana has only recently been legalized. In the past, the majority of research came from the FDA. They have really strict guidelines. All of the marijuana they use comes from one

Veterans Affairs committee  Wow.

Veterans Affairs committee  I don't think so. Why that is, is because ancient-time cannabis was totally different. As I just mentioned, in the 1960s cannabis was different. The hippies who did this drug could not necessarily do the same thing here. Also, since the Chinese government took over 50 or 60 years

Veterans Affairs committee  I think the most challenging part is that we do not have a unified voice. From different parties and different institutes and different interest groups, the information may come with very different attitudes. As we know, from the Canadian Medical Association, the Canadian Psych

Veterans Affairs committee  That's a really important issue. I think that, in general, the policy of marijuana use, and even recreational use, is faster than the evidence presented, not just nationally but internationally. From that angle, medicine, and also psychiatry as part of medicine, is quite conserv

Veterans Affairs committee  That is a really good point. At the very beginning, when the synthetic one was developed, attempts were made to separate the useful compounds and then make them more precisely target the compounds in certain situations. However, more evidence shows that the synthetic ones may l

Veterans Affairs committee  The recreational one is quite a variety of products, so it's really difficult to compare. It depends on their strength and the customers' preference, but from a physician's perspective, when I am educating patients, I always tell them: CBD, CBD, CBD. That's the message I'm send

Veterans Affairs committee  Good afternoon, bonjour, honourable members of the committee and my esteemed colleagues. I would like to express my sincerest gratitude for the honour to be here today. My name is Dr. Yanbo Zhang. I am a clinician scientist from the department of psychiatry in the college of med