‘It’s So Difficult’: Canadian Cannabis Research Mired in Red Tape

Hundreds of academics across the country are waiting on a complex approval process to begin studying the impacts of cannabis on an array of topics including impacts on drivers, CTV News has learned. Health Canada says that as it transitions hundreds of authorized research licences from the Narcotics Control Regulations to the Cannabis Act, “there have been challenges in processing times for new research licence applications.” More than 350 existing research licensees are in the…

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Author: Penny Daflos, CTV News