Mark Ware
Born in England, Dr. Mark Ware was raised in Jamaica and began his career in medicine there treating patients with sickle cell anemia, gradually becoming convinced that smoked cannabis provided effective relief for chronic pain.  His interest in medical cannabis formed the basis of his study of epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and he relocated to Canada after receiving his medical degree in order to work with the growing community of scientists and physicians there who studied the potentially therapeutic effects of marijuana.  Dr. Ware is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology at McGill University, and a practicing physician at the MUHC Pain Centre.  He recently was a Principal Investigator to the Community Research Initiative of Toronto, helping to design a program of research on the medical effectiveness of smoked cannabis for AIDS patients. He is the Scientific Director of the Canadian Consortium for the Investigation of Cannabinoids (CCIC), and a member of both the International Cannabinoid Research Society and the Canadian Pain Society.