Cannabis clinical research in purgatory: Canadian researchers caught between an inflexible regulatory environment and a conflicted industry.

• Sergio Rueda,
• Elizabeth Limanto,
• Michael Chaiton

Affiliations

Sergio Rueda

Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; Institute for Mental Health Policy Research and Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Canada; Corresponding author: Sergio Rueda, Independent Scientist, Institute for Mental Health Policy Research and Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto. 33 Ursula Franklin Street, T319, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5S 2S1, T 416.535.8501 × 30742, F 416.979.4703.

Elizabeth Limanto

Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Michael Chaiton

Institute for Mental Health Policy Research and Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Canada; Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada