Several points: you suggest in your article that "more research" is the answer to unknown potentials in the cannabis plant's biochemical profile. Yet cannabis is one of the most researched substances on Earth (we know more about MJ than we do about penicillin), with decades of peer-reviewed work available everywhere, from Health Canada to the U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse--but for some great info, see potfacts.ca. 

Next up is the absence of Big Pharma in your work: how has the pharmaceutical lobby prevented/obscured/benefitted from MJ research?

Next you suggest cannabis "may also reduce dependence on opioid painkillers" but you provide no empirical evidence, even though there's plenty out there that shows it does. So why the overly hesitant tone of this article? Just what is it that you are not permitted to say about MJ? that it works? That it relieves from FEAR? as well as pain (analgesic) and anxiety (anxiolytic)? And interesting how "clinical" Globe MJ coverage has become.