Surge in veterans’ pot prescriptions raises flags at Health Canada
The recent explosion in the number of veterans being reimbursed for medical marijuana, flagged by the Auditor-General in a critical report, is being fuelled by groups in the Atlantic provinces connecting former soldiers suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder with licensed growers hungry for patients.
The practice has raised flags at Health Canada, where officials have looked into efforts by some veterans groups to leverage kickbacks from medical producers in exchange for providing them with patients.
Veterans are part of the only publicly funded plan in the country for medical marijuana. Groups that represent them offer a small but lucrative patient base for Canada’s two dozen licensed producers, which are fighting for their share of a competitive market while facing pressure from an illegal dispensary sector rapidly spreading east from Vancouver.
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