2023-11-13 19:26:44
By Pierre Kaldy
Published 1 hour ago, Updated 1 hour ago
At a 420 (cannabis event) in Vancouver in April. Dyck Darryl/CP/ABACA
A large study looked at the effects that the law authorizing the marketing of the psychotropic drug would have had on the consumption and mental health of Canadians.
Five years after legalizing the marketing of cannabis, Canada is today facing an increase in hospitalizations for psychotic episodes linked to taking this psychotropic substancereveals a vast investigation carried out by Canadian researchers and published in the American medical journal Jama Network Open. « This public health study is well conducted and it is interesting that its authors made the difference between the stage of the legalization of cannabis and that of its commercialization which followed », Comments Marie-Odile Krebs, professor and researcher at the Paris Institute of Psychiatry and Neurosciences.
Entering into force in October 2018, the Cannabis Act aimed to limit trafficking, protect young people and exercise better control over the products consumed. Canada was then the second country in the world after Uruguay to not only legalize the consumption of non-medical cannabis in adults, but…
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