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The subscription service is currently unavailable. Please try again later.B.C.'s Chief Medical Officer says marijuana does have some medical benefits, countering claims from federal Health Minister Rona Ambrose that it has no medicinal value.
Last week, Ambrose spoke to On the Coast's Stephen Quinn about the City of Vancouver's plan to regulate marijuana dispensaries.
A board shows different products for sale at a medical marijuana dispensary in Vancouver, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2015. The free-for-all era of Canada's commercial medical marijuana industry is over as a new crop of growers try to woo scarce investment dollars in an increasingly competitive business, observers say. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward (The Canadian Press)
Ambrose said the federal government is against the plan, saying science shows conclusively that marijuana is bad for kids.
"We know from the research that marijuana has great harmful impacts on the developing brain for young people, whether it is springing the onset of psychosis or even mental health issues as serious as...
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