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Research supports medical marijuana as pain medication: HIV/AIDS doctors
October 09, 2015 | The Vancouver Sun
A commentary by HIV/AIDS experts in Vancouver says the Canadian Medical Association is shortchanging patients in pain by not endorsing marijuana as a viable treatment. There’s enough evidence to consider medical marijuana for pain, although the national organization representing doctors says t...
Medical marijuana policies under fire by top BC doctors
October 09, 2015 | CBC News
Rigid rules around medical marijuana leading to more prescription opioid use and abuse Medical marijuana could cut down on the use of addictive painkillers according to a new paper in the Canadian Journal of Public Health, but some of Vancouver’s best known researchers say reluctant doctors an...
Local doctors push for different approach to medical marijuana
October 09, 2015 | News 1130
VANCOUVER – Two local leaders in HIV/AIDS research are breaking ranks from their medical association, calling for it to change its approach to medical marijuana. The rules don’t rely on the most up-to-date science, according to Doctors Thomas Kerr and Julio Montaner with the BC Centre fo...
CBC: Interview with Dr. M-J Milloy on cannabis
October 09, 2015 | CBC News
Segment begins at 1:16:44. Interview between 1:17:26-1:24:21...
CBC: Interview with Dr. Thomas Kerr
October 09, 2015 | CBC News
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