Position Statement on the Use of Medical Cannabis for the Treatment of Epilepsy in Canada

Juan Pablo Appendino¹, Cyrus Boelman¹, Paula M Brna¹+22

• ¹Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Alberta Children's Hospital, Calgary, Alberta, Canada (JPA); UBC Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neurology, BC Children's Hospital, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (CB); IWK Health Centre, Department of Pediatrics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada (PMB); Epilepsy Program, Department of Clinical Neurological Sciences and Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada (JGB); Alberta Children's Hospital, Departments of Neurosciences and Pharmacy, Calgary, Alberta, Canada (CSC); Division of Pediatric Neurology, Director of The Epilepsy Program, British Columbia's Children's Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (MBC); The Hospital for Sick Children, Department of Pharmacy, Ontario, Canada (MVTDG); Departments of Clinical Neurosciences and Radiology, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada (PF); Past President CEA, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada (DF); Division of Pediatric Neurology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Saskatchewan, Cannabinoid Research Initiative of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada (RJH); Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (MJ); Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Department of Neurology and Population Health Science and Policy, New York, NY, USA (NJ); Nurse Practitioner Stollery Childrens Hospital, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada (LLJ); Faculty of Medicine, Department of Neurosciences and Department of Social and Preventative Medicine, Université de Montréal, Clinician Researcher, Centre de Recherche du CHUM (CRCHUM), Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal, Montréal, Quebec, Canada (MRK); Department of Clinical Neurological Sciences, Division of Neurosurgery, Western University,Ontario, Canada (JCL); Division of Neurology, Department of Pediatrics, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (BM); Western University, London, Ontario, Canada (RSM); Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Neurology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada (MCN); Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal Division of Neurology, Montréal, Quebec, Canada (DKN); Krembil Research Institute, University Health Network, Department of Medicine (Neurology), University of Toronto, Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (AYR); Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Section of Paediatric Neurology, Alberta Children's Hospital, Calgary, Alberta, Canada (JMR); The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Department of Pediatrics, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (OCS); University of Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan Epilepsy Program, Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine Royal University Hospital, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada (JFTZ); The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (LW); The Hospital for Sick Children, Division of Neurology, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (MMZ).