Ottawa places three-gram limit on amount of medical pot it covers for veterans
VANCOUVER β The federal government is limiting the amount of medical cannabis that veterans will be reimbursed for to three grams a day.
Veterans Affairs Minister Kent Hehr says the cost of reimbursing veterans has increased with many using up to 10 grams a day.
The new limit announced today at a military and veterans health research forum in Vancouver is for dried cannabis or the equivalent of oil.
Hehr says Veterans Affairs and the Canadian Armed Forces are also launching a study on the medical effects of cannabis, adding that scientific research is inconclusive.