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Canada is investing CAD 24 million in a new national research collaboration on cannabis and brain health. The initiative is intended to provide better evidence on how cannabis affects people at different. . .
Canada is investing CAD 24 million in a new national research collaboration on cannabis and brain health. The initiative is intended to provide better evidence on how cannabis affects people at different stages of life, and how its use relates to sleep, mental health and certain medical conditions. A national research collaboration on cannabis and brain healthCanada’s Minister of Health, Marjorie Michel, announced the investment on August 12. The funding is being provided through the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, CIHR, to the Canadian Cannabis and Brain Health Consortium, the country’s first national research consortium focused on cannabis and brain health. The consortium brings together ten multidisciplinary research teams from universities across the country. A central element is the coordination of data so it can be harmonized, pooled and accessed across provinces and territories. The aim is to create a long-term national resource for continued research. Get the week’s important news from Cannabis. se in your inbox — interesting weekend reading! 🥦✉️Studies on pregnancy, young people, sleep and mental healthThe teams will examine cannabis in several settings. The projects cover exposure during pregnancy and early childhood, young people’s neurocognitive development, aging, high-potency cannabis products, sleep and cannabis use disorder. Other projects concern people with psychosis, post-traumatic stress disorder, PTSD, and epilepsy. One project will examine non-medical cannabis use among people with epilepsy, while another combines national cohort data on sleep with a randomized controlled trial among people with PTSD. The research will also include groups that CIHR says have historically been underrepresented in cannabis research, including Indigenous Peoples and people with rare or complex medical histories. Knowledge gaps after cannabis legalization in CanadaCannabis for non-medical use was legalized in Canada in 2018. According to the Canadian government, more than one in three adults reported having used cannabis in 2025. The agency emphasizes that many people use cannabis without experiencing serious adverse effects, but that important questions remain about brain health. This is particularly relevant to young people, pregnant people, frequent users and people at elevated risk of mental health harms. The investment is part of CIHR’s Integrated Cannabis Research Strategy and is intended in part to address knowledge gaps identified in the 2024 legislative review of the Cannabis Act. The goal is for the findings to inform prevention, care, and evidence-informed health care and public policy. SourceGovernment of Canada investing $24 million to establish Canada's first national cannabis and brain health research consortium