Federal government invests $24 million for cannabis and brain health research
The 10-team project will recruit more than 3,000 participants and share data on brain function, mental health and substance use.
- On Wednesday, Federal Minister Health Marjorie Michel announced $24 million to create the Canadian Cannabis and Brain Health Consortium, funding 10 research teams across Canada to investigate cannabis impacts on brain function.
- Canadian research on cannabis health effects accelerated after 2018 legalization, yet significant knowledge gaps regarding the substance's impacts remain, which the Brain Health Consortium aims to address.
- Patricia Conrod, scientific director at CIHR's Institute of Neurosciences, Mental Health and Addiction, stated the project consolidates Canada's experts to advance understanding of cannabis effects.
- "It's bringing together Canada's top brain health and cannabis researchers in order to really bring us to another place," Conrod said, referencing the consortium's goal to establish evidence on benefits and harms.
- Data collected by these teams will be accessible to other Canadian researchers for subsequent studies, aiming to establish scientific evidence regarding both potential benefits and harms of cannabis use.
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Federal Minister of Health Marjorie Michel has announced $24 million to create the Canadian Cannabis and Brain Health Consortium. Funded through the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the group of 10 research teams from across Canada will work together to study how cannabis affects the brain in people of various ages. The consortium, announced Wednesday, aims to establish scientific evidence about both potential benefits and harms of cannab…
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Federal government invests $24 million for cannabis and brain health research
TORONTO - Federal Minister of Health Marjorie Michel has announced $24 million to create the Canadian Cannabis and Brain Health Consortium.
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