Cannabis companies and the sponsorship of scientific research: A cross-sectional Canadian case study.

ABSTRACT: Corporations across sectors engage in the conduct, sponsorship, and dissemination of scientific research. Industry sponsorship of research, however, is associated with research agendas, outcomes, and conclusions that are favourable to the sponsor. The legalization of cannabis in Canada provides a useful case study to understand the nature and extent of the nascent cannabis industry's involvement in the production of scientific evidence as well as broader impacts on equity-oriented research agendas. We conducted a cross-sectional, descriptive, meta-research study to describe the characteristics of research that reports funding from, or author conflicts of interest with, Canadian cannabis companies. From May to August 2021, we sampled licensed, prominent Canadian cannabis companies, identifi

SUBMITTER: Grundy Q 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9831296 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature