Estimating harmful effects of cannabis and use for policy makers shifting from one mistake to the next?

Addiction

Volumn 105, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1334-1335

  Wittchen, Hans Ulrich ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cannabis; cannabis policy; cannabis use

Indexed keywords

CANNABIS SMOKING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; MANAGEMENT; NOTE; PSYCHOSIS;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); HUMANS; MARIJUANA SMOKING; POLICY MAKING; PSYCHOSES, SUBSTANCE-INDUCED;

EID: 77954474563     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: 13600443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2010.02937.x     Document Type: Note

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