“The myths have been disproven. Unfortunately, the loudest voices in the cannabis debate often are people who have political or financial skin in the game, and the two sides are entrenched. Pro-cannabis people will say that cannabis is the greatest medication ever, and harmless. Others — often in the same field that I’m in, people who treat patients, people who do research with cannabis — will at times misrepresent the facts as well. They will go into a room of 100 or 200 high schoolers and relay the message that cannabis is as dangerous as fentanyl. That’s not true either. These camps seem to feel that even a single shred of evidence that runs counter to their narrative hurts them. So at the end of the day, a lot of what people hear about cannabis is either incomplete or flat-out wrong because both sides are promoting polar opposite views of cannabis.”
Learn more on What We Know and Don’t Know About Pot (interview with Dr. Kevin Hill) via Harvard Health & Medicine Gazette.
Additional info here on Medical Marijuana by Dr. Peter Grinspoon via Harvard Health Blog.
CPD Online Modules: Cannabis Education for Health Care Providers via UBC.
UBC Family Practice Residency Program: Abbotsford-Mission Site 