Dr Mary Lynch has long advocated for treating pain well, whatever it takes — maybe even diet and cannabinoids. She's one of the founders of the Pain Medicine certification program at Canada’s Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, is a past president of the Canadian Pain Society, and is Professor of Anesthesia, Psychiatry and Pharmacology at Dalhousie University in Halifax, where she works in the pain clinic at the QEII Health Sciences Centre.