Health Canada Releases Revised Medical Marijuana Manual

New medical marijuana guidelines respond to doctors' complaints about having too little information.

Health Canada has significantly expanded its medical marijuana manual for health-care professionals, adding major new sections about the potential adverse effects on the teenaged brain and driving safety.

The document is much larger than the previous 2013 edition, and responds to doctors' complaints about having too little information on the medical science even as they're being asked to authorize marijuana for a growing number of patients.

Dr. Cindy Forbes, president of the Canadian Medical Association

Dr. Cindy Forbes, a family doctor in Fall River, N.S., and president of the Canadian Medical Association, welcomes the new science in the guide. (Canadian Medical Association)

The heavily revised manual arrives as the Liberals sort out how to legalize recreational marijuana as promised in the federal election – and the document's fresh litany of cautions...

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