Cannabis legalization: Did we make a mistake? Update 2019

Affiliations

¹ From the Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology, McGill University; the Department of Neurology & Neurosurgery, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University; the Center for Studies in Behavioral Neurobiology, Concordia University; and the Research Unit on Children’s Psychosocial Maladjustment, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Que., Canada.

Editorial

Marco Leyton. J Psychiatry Neurosci. 2019.

. 2019 Sep 1;44(5):291-293.

doi: 10.1503/jpn.190136.

¹ From the Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology, McGill University; the Department of Neurology & Neurosurgery, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University; the Center for Studies in Behavioral Neurobiology, Concordia University; and the Research Unit on Children’s Psychosocial Maladjustment, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Que., Canada.

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