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.
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 schizophrenia and this kind of normalization, by having marijuana being sold in storefronts is a terrible signal to young people,” Ambrose said on Friday.
CBC News – Apr 27, 2015.
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