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“Using the term ‘medical’ is giving a false impression to people — parents and kids,” says Dr. Siavash Jafari, who works out of several Vancouver Coastal Health clinics in Vancouver and also the Burnaby Centre for Mental Health and Addiction.
“To say ‘medical’ means it is supported by the medical community. It is not. That’s a misconception among the public.” he says.
“Parents feel that it’s not dangerous so they don’t talk to their kids about it.”
The scientific evidence is simply not there for most health claims made by dispensaries, he says, with the exception of its use for patients in palliative care.
Jafari says he routinely talks to patients with health problems who don’t even think to mention how much marijuana they smoke —...
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