Changes in cannabis use during the COVID-19 pandemic: a comparison between Poland and Canada

Affiliations

¹ School of Public Health, Centre of Postgraduate Medical Education of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.
² Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, Canada.
³ Department of Cancer Epidemiology and Primary Prevention, Maria Sklodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology, Warsaw, Poland.
⁴ Department of Medical Informatics and Statistics with e-Health Lab, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland.
⁵ Faculty of Medicine, Collegium Medicum, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University, Warsaw, Poland.

Urszula Religioni et al. Arch Med Sci. 2025.

. 2025 Jun 27;21(3):1095-1098.

doi: 10.5114/aoms/207491. eCollection 2025.

¹ School of Public Health, Centre of Postgraduate Medical Education of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.
² Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, Canada.
³ Department of Cancer Epidemiology and Primary Prevention, Maria Sklodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology, Warsaw, Poland.
⁴ Department of Medical Informatics and Statistics with e-Health Lab, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland.
⁵ Faculty of Medicine, Collegium Medicum, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University, Warsaw, Poland.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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