More research needed on pot use and hard-drug withdrawal symptoms, says former B.C. health minister

B.C.’s former health minister is calling for more research on the effects of cannabis on opioid addictions.

Terry Lake oversaw the declaration of a public health emergency in 2016 amid the province’s deadly fentanyl crisis, and is now a vice-president at the medical cannabis company Hydropothecary. Lake is the former Liberal MLA for Kamloops  North Thompson.

He will be participating in a discussion on pot and opioids at the Lift Cannabis Expo in Vancouver on Sunday. Lake said there is preliminary