Health considerations of the legalization of cannabis edibles

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¹ Department of Family and Community Medicine (Grewal), University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.; Public Health, Region of Peel (Loh), Mississauga, Ont.; Dalla Lana School of Public Health (Loh), University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.
² Department of Family and Community Medicine (Grewal), University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.; Public Health, Region of Peel (Loh), Mississauga, Ont.; Dalla Lana School of Public Health (Loh), University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont. lawrence.loh@peelregion.ca.

Jasleen K Grewal et al. CMAJ. 2020.

. 2020 Jan 6;192(1):E1-E2.

doi: 10.1503/cmaj.191217.

¹ Department of Family and Community Medicine (Grewal), University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.; Public Health, Region of Peel (Loh), Mississauga, Ont.; Dalla Lana School of Public Health (Loh), University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.
² Department of Family and Community Medicine (Grewal), University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.; Public Health, Region of Peel (Loh), Mississauga, Ont.; Dalla Lana School of Public Health (Loh), University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont. lawrence.loh@peelregion.ca.

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Competing interests: None declared.

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