Canada: Doctors to give Trudeau an earful for his marijuana legalization plans
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau asked doctors for their opinions on the Liberals’ promised legalization of the recreational use of marijuana.
He’s about to hear an earful from them.
At one of the final sessions of the annual meeting of the Canadian Medical Association in Vancouver on Wednesday, delegates aired their concerns. Among them: the fact that a psychoactive drug is being legitimized to the point where the public thinks it’s a benign substance; the fact marijuana affects brain development, not just in the young but into the 60s; that there is no solid evidence it is safe and effective as a medical treatment so using the term medical marijuana is a misnomer.
Marijuana can be prescribed for medical purposes in Canada, but it is still illegal for recreational use although numerous doctors attending the conference commented on the ubiquitous smell of cannabis every time they went outside the Westin Bayshore where the...
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