Faced with skyrocketing costs and ballooning demand, the federal government is dramatically cutting back the amount of medical marijuana it will cover for veterans. Veterans Affairs Minister Kent Hehr plans to scale back the limit for reimbursement from 10 grams of medical marijuana per day to three. Veterans Affairs Minister Kent Hehr is scaling back the amount of medical marijuana that will be covered by his department. Former NDP MP Peter Stoffer has raised questions about the amount of medical cannabis prescribed by some doctors. The report also noted that just one doctor wrote 29 per cent of the medical marijuana prescriptions in the 2014-15 fiscal year.

Source: CBC News November 22, 2016 16:17 UTC