Why medical cannabis should be covered by plans and payers

With cannabinoid-based medicines, clinicians can often wean multiple other meds - which not only has a powerful effect on patients' well-being - but also a huge cost-saving effect. I'll be publishing some data on this soon - but if any of you have further evidence to illustrate this, please reach out. We'd love to get more people involved in the #CoverCannabis Project. Once the provinces & payers understand the cost-benefit, hopefully there will be more coverage for medical cannabis - especially for our most vulnerable patients. Check out more of my thoughts on this in this article.

The #CoverCannabis Project: Multimodal Medications

We are currently in the midst of a chronic disease epidemic, with conditions like obesity, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, depression and type two diabetes at an all time high. Rather than prescribing a pill for every symptom, multimodal therapies like exercise, nutrition and cannabinoid-based medicines can be very helpful in these scenarios and significantly help to reduce polypharmacy. 

Without a doubt, this approach should also be focused on more in med school, so that our new doctors have more patient-centred tools to tackle the modern chronic disease epidemic.