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Whether you’re a proponent or opponent of medical cannabis, the therapeutic drug is slowly building momentum in the capital with more businesses dedicated to its use.

The latest arrival is Canadian Cannabis Clinics. It will be opening an Ottawa clinic at the end of May in a medical building on Montreal Road, the fourth Ontario location to open in a year.

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The business operates like any other medical clinic where patients see a doctor and use their OHIP card as payment, but these doctors focus on assessing whether medical cannabis should be prescribed. The owners stress no cannabis will be on site.

How does the clinic operate?

Ronan Levy, a co-owner and the clinic’s director and general counsel, says the clinic will be staffed by four doctors and a medical cannabis consultant.

“It’s a medical clinic. It just so happens to specialize in the prescribing of medical cannabis,” he said.

How did the clinic come about?