BR Veterans Marijuana – CP

Source: The Canadian Press – Broadcast wire
Jan 4, 2017 

OTTAWA – Almost three-quarters of veterans who use medical marijuana will feel the impact this spring when the federal government places a new limit on the amount of weed for which it will pay.

A new report says 74 per cent of veterans whose medical pot is covered by the government consume more than three grams per day.

That would put them over the three-gram daily maximum the government is poised to impose as of May.

The government has pointed to skyrocketing costs and a lack of scientific evidence about the drug’s medical benefits in defending its decision to scale back the amount it will cover.

An internal Veterans Affairs Canada audit says the new limit will affect hundreds of veterans.

The audit says more than 17-hundred injured ex-soldiers were being reimbursed for medical marijuana as of the end of last March.

Just 26 per cent were getting three grams or less each day.

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(The Canadian Press)

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