Longitudinal, population-based analysis of burn injuries across Canada pre-recreational and post-recreational cannabis legalisation
Sarah Paleczny, Saifedine T Rjaibi, Olli Saarela, Peter Selby, Sergio Rueda, Adam Levitan, Edward Wang, Chris Brogly, Michael D Cusimano · 2026
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Sarah Paleczny and a large team track in 2026 whether burn injuries across Canada changed after recreational cannabis became legal in 2018. Cannabis can raise burn risk through extraction with flammable gas, breathing injuries, and clumsier handling of flames. Policy rolled out in stages, province by province.
Monthly hospital and emergency data spanning up to 18 years were cut into periods around announcement, legalization, and shop expansion. Overall, no national shift in burn rates followed legalization. Some groups did move: hospital rates rose among certain children, a pattern the report flags for closer study. Shop rollout style and pandemic lockdowns were weighed as extra factors in the models.
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| CREATOR | Sarah Paleczny, Saifedine T Rjaibi, Olli Saarela, Peter Selby, Sergio Rueda, Adam Levitan, Edward Wang, Chris Brogly, Michael D Cusimano |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 38671 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |