Veterans Affairs committee  That's a really good question about a really important subject. As you know, access to cannabis is all that's been on my mind for the five years I've been in this. I continue to be asked by countries all over the world about this and about how we can solve this problem. We can't

Veterans Affairs committee  Sure.

Veterans Affairs committee  I just want to reiterate that THC is not a hallucinogenic, and there is no absolute formula. What is interesting about cannabis is that very small doses can work. We know that the average amount, in data from Israel, the Netherlands, and Canada, is about one milligram, 1.5 millig

Veterans Affairs committee  Cannabis is not a gateway drug. Anyone who says that is spewing out a lot of nonsense. There isn't a shred of legitimate evidence on the planet to support that. It's just rhetoric left over from the old “drug war” time. In fact, there is a good paper on that. It isn't at my fing

Veterans Affairs committee  I don't have on the tip of my tongue case studies that would be like a testimonial to say this one worked and this one didn't work. There was no consistency in my experience of seeing veterans or anyone else with PTSD in terms of the drugs that worked or didn't work. I'm referrin

Veterans Affairs committee  Aurora has several properties. One of them is CanniMed, which was the first of the licensed commercial producers. CanniMed is in our fold, so we work with the science people in that area too. Yes, we are collaborating with university centres and research centres in a number of pr

Veterans Affairs committee  We're not doing that. I specifically asked the people in our companies about tracking that information. It's not being done. It would be far better to construct a specific study in that regard to gather that information. I don't know of anybody who is doing that, but it has value

Veterans Affairs committee  Okay.

Veterans Affairs committee  I have not.

Veterans Affairs committee  I'm sorry, but because of volume issues I was unable to hear the first part of your question.

Veterans Affairs committee  Which responds better depends on what study you look at, and I don't think it's important. Whether it's PTSD or chronic pain or anxiety or insomnia, cannabis works for all of those different problems. What I would like to address is the other part of your question, about the sp

Veterans Affairs committee  Perhaps you will allow me to add just one more thing.

Veterans Affairs committee  When you're doing this, you have to keep in mind that cannabis is a botanical. It's a herb. It's not the same. It's very difficult, when you're assessing the science on it, to consider that. If you want to look at what cannabis will do, look at the pharmaceutical products that ha

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes.

Veterans Affairs committee  Absolutely.