Adverse reactions associated with cannabis consumption as evident from search engine queries

JMIR Public Health and Surveillance

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2017, Pages

  Yom Tov, Elad ^a   Lev Ran, Shaul ^b,c  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^b Lev Hasharon Mental Health Cente   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cannabis; Pharmacovigilance; Search engines

Indexed keywords

EID: 85047531174     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23692960     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/publichealth.8391     Document Type: Article

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