8220;We don't have the evidence to say this product is a good choice or not a good one based on your symptoms,8221; said Sadowski, who has noticed many of her patients have started using cannabis on their own since it was legalized see this site in Canada in 2018. Medicinal cannabis has been allowed since 2001. Regarding concomitant treatment, one of the requirements of the IMCA for approving MC dose rising is that the patients are still on painkillers or other specific medications for their primary disease, in order to justify MC dose raising. Thus, patients asking for MC dose rising still needed to buy their medications from the pharmacy even if these meds were ineffective and/or produced some adverse effects. Thus, concomitant treatments besides MC did not really reflect the need for them by MC-consuming patients in our study and could not reflect the real benefits that patients in our study had obtained from MC treatment.