UBC professorship to look at pot’s potential in easing opioid crisis

The Tyee reported on a new UBC professorship of cannabis science to examine the role that marijuana-based research could play in mitigating the opioid crisis and other addictive disorders.

“Medical implications of cannabis have been neglected for far too long,” said Dr. Evan Wood, a UBC  professor of medicine and director of the BC Centre on Substance Use.