McGill launches medical marijuana registry
In what’s being hailed as a world first, two groups, including the McGill University Health Centre, have launched a registry of medical cannabis users.
The new research database is aimed at collecting information on how cannabis is used and monitoring patient safety.
“Hopefully the database itself will provide enough meat for other researchers in Quebec and elsewhere to be able to ask questions of their own about effects on certain symptoms and side effect profiles,” said principal researcher Dr. Mark Ware, director of clinical research at the MUHC and associate professor at McGill University.
The idea is for researchers to be able to paint a better picture of who is using cannabis, why, and how much they are using, Ware said.
If over time we start to notice trends in the type of cannabis they use or the level of THC (the main active ingredient) that they prefer ... we...
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