The Cannabis Act: implications for human participant research with cannabis

Patricia Di Ciano1, Christine Wickens1, Elvin M Paul1

  • 1From the Institute for Mental Health Policy Research, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ont. (Di Ciano, Wickens, Paul, Rueda); the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont. (Di Ciano, Wickens, Boileau); the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont. (Di Ciano, Wickens, Crépault); the Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, Toronto, Ont. (Di Ciano, Wickens, Rueda, Boileau); the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont. (Rueda); the Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont. (Wickens, Boileau); the Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont. (Mahmood, Rueda, Boileau); the Addiction Imaging Research Group, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ont. (Mahmood, Boileau); the Brain Health Imaging Centre, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ont. (Boileau); Communications and Partnerships, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ont. (Crépault).

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