Kamloops doctor explains why he wants to open the city's first marijuana grow op

A Kamloops doctor could become the proprietor of the city’s first medical marijuana grow operation.Neurosurgeon Dr. Richard Brownlee sees the grow op as both a business and research opportunity.Brownlee opened the Welcome Back MRI and Pain Management Centre in 2008 and while he operates on things like brain tumours, the vast majority of his business is dedicated to managing chronic pain — specifically back pain.Back pain is one of the most difficult things to treat as it’s not always apparent where the pain originates and not always solved with surgery, he says.Brownlee would like to open a medical clinic dedicated to studying the effectiveness of marijuana in pain management in conjunction to the grow op.“As a physician... you see lots of people on narcotics who don’t function very well," he says. "I have a lot of other patients who do use medical marijuana… I just find they seem to function...

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