Windsor now has a medical marijuana clinic, but they have started seeing patients via teleconference because there isn't a doctor who works out of the local office.

Officials with Canadian Cannabis Clinic are hoping to change that.

“Most doctors don't really understand how cannabis can be used effectively as part of medicine,” says Canadian Cannabis Clinic co-founder and director Ronan Levy.

Levy says they are hosting an education night for local doctors on Thursday.

He says  the goal is to get doctors thinking about medicinal marijuana as an option for some patients and they're also hoping as a result of that a local doctor will agree to start seeing patients here in Windsor.

Until then, patients are seen by a counsellor in Windsor and then they teleconference with a doctor at a different clinic in Ontario.

The event, for doctors only, will be at the holiday inn on Huron Church Road and with a key note address by Dr. John Hanlon, the director of the pain management department at the University of Toronto.