Serious and life-threatening events associated with non-medical (recreational) cannabis use in Canadian children and youth

2018 - 2025 - Current

Principal investigators

Richard E. Bélanger, MD, Department of Paediatrics, Centre mère-enfant Soleil - CHU de Québec - Université Laval, 2705 Boulevard Laurier, R1742, Quebec City QC  G1V 4G2; tel.: 418-654-2282; fax: 418-654-2137; [email protected]

Christina Grant, MD, Division of Adolescent Medicine, Department of Paediatrics, McMaster University, 3G48-1200 Main St W, Hamilton ON  L8N 3Z5; tel.: 905-521-2100, ext. 75644; fax: 905-308-7548; [email protected]

Co-investigators

Hanan Abramovici, PhD, Cannabis Legalization and Regulation Secretariat, Health Canada

Amy Acker, MD, Hotel Dieu Hospital, Queen’s University

Seth D. Ammerman, MD, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, Stanford University

Nathalie Gingras, MD, CIUSSS Capitale-Nationale, Université Laval

Julie Laroche, PhD, Controlled Substances Directorate, Health Canada

Charlotte Moore Hepburn, MD, The Hospital for Sick Children

Robert Yates, MD, McMaster Children’s Hospital, McMaster University

Collaborators

Dirk Huyer, MD, Chief Coroner for Ontario

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