CMA denounces new medical marijuana rules

The CMA says the federal government's new for medical purposes ignore one of the bedrock tenets of mainstream medicine - that there be clinical evidence supporting a drug's use before it is employed as a medical therapy. When the new rules take full effect April 1, 2014, the federal government will no longer be involved in authorizing the use of medical marijuana or in distributing it. Instead, "health care practitioners will sign a medical document enabling patients to purchase the appropriate amount for their medical condition from a licensed producer approved by Health Canada." Essentially, says the CMA, physicians will become the drug's gatekeepers. Read more here.