Lankenau, Stephen E. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6928-0085
Ataiants, Janna
Prince, Mark
Fedorova, Ekaterina
Conn, Bridgid M.
Ansell, Emily
Wong, Carolyn F.
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institute on Drug Abuse (DA034067)
Article History
Received: 30 May 2025
Accepted: 30 November 2025
First Online: 20 December 2025
Declarations
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: The authors declare that they have obtained ethics approval from an appropriately constituted ethics committee/institutional review board where the research entailed animal or human participation: Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Institutional Review Board (protocol # CCI-12–00342).
: All participants were informed of their rights as human subjects verbally and via a consent form approved by the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Institutional Review Board. All participants freely consented to join this study.
: The following authors receive funding for separate research on medical cannabis from Verano via a research contract between Drexel University and Verano: Stephen Lankenau, Janna Ataiants, Ekaterina Fedorova. Verano had no role in this study, including conception, design, execution, analysis, or interpretation of study findings. The following authors have nothing to declare: Mark Prince, Bridgid M. Conn, Emily Ansel, and Carolyn Wong.
: All procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2000 (5). Informed consent was obtained from all participants before being included in the study.