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Cannabis is a Medicine – A Response to the Globe and Mail’s Margaret Wente

Submitted by Marijuana News on Sat, 07/11/2015 - 09:09

For more than a year, Canada has had a federally-regulated medical cannabis regime. It’s a system unique in the world – tightly regulated by Health Canada, market-based with multiple competing licensed producers, and arguably represents Canadian leadership in an emerging area of medical research and treatment. Our national medical cannabis system works well, specifically because it treats cannabis as medicine.

But not everyone agrees. The Globe and Mail’s Margaret Wente thinks it’s misleading to call cannabis medicine (“Medical marijuana is a charade”, July 7). Ms. Wente and others who scoff at the medical use of cannabis are incorrect. Let’s look at some basic facts about medical cannabis, and how it differs from the recreational use of “street marijuana”.

First, the evidence. There is a large and growing body of clinical data regarding the potential benefits, as well as the risks and side effects of cannabis as medicine. These...

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