He is 47 years old and, chances are, he lives somewhere on British Columbia’s Sunshine Coast.

Under Health Canada’s medical marijuana program, he is approved to legally consume up to five grams a day of the pot he grows himself at home. Most likely, his general practitioner signed the forms he needed to get the drug.

And on average, he is a “he” — men in the program outnumber women by a ratio of about three to one.

As with a great number of medical marijuana patients, he uses the drug to treat severe arthritis, although he may suffer from other conditions.

Data obtained by the Ottawa Citizen through the Access to Information Act put this face to the typical medical marijuana patient for the first time, 10 years after the federal government — under pressure from a series of legal rulings — was forced to start allowing seriously ill Canadians to apply to use the drug.