Integrated Cannabis Research Strategy: Components
ICRS principles
- Provide evidence to meet federal, provincial, territorial and knowledge user needs
- Ensure data/information sharing
- Facilitate collaboration across stakeholders at all levels, ensuring social and cultural relevancy to stakeholders
- Ensure inclusion of Indigenous Peoples in the research process, with culturally-appropriate considerations throughout, including meaningful engagement with Indigenous leaders
- Ensure adherence to the highest ethical standards of research
- Ensure sex and gender are integrated appropriately throughout the research process
- Provide transparency and accountability for ICRS governance activities, including measures to identify and manage real, perceived and ideological conflicts of interest
ICRS specific objectives
- Increase cannabis health research capacity
- Promote open data sharing
- Build the evidence base on the balance of benefits and harms of cannabis use under different contexts
- Get evidence into the hands of health care providers, policy makers and other knowledge users
- Establish rigorous clinical evidence for therapeutic use of cannabis (including its constituents or derived products)
CIHR Institutes
- Institute of Neurosciences, Mental Health and Addiction
- Institute of Cancer Research
- Institute of Circulatory and Respiratory Health
- Institute of Human Development, Child and Youth Health
- Institute of Indigenous Peoples’ Health
- Institute of Musculoskeletal Health and Arthritis
Other Resources
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