Medical Cannabis Research Center at Drexel Announces New Public Health Pilot Study Award for 2026-2027  

The study team will be conducting in-depth interviews with healthcare providers, child welfare professionals, and parenting medical cannabis patients who have experienced CPS/GPS involvement related to medical cannabis use. These interviews will explore providers’ beliefs and decision-making around reporting; child welfare professionals’ approaches to assessing caregiver cannabis use; and parents’ experiences of being investigated and how that impacts their chronic illness management, engagement with healthcare systems, stress level, and family functioning. This study aims to identify how cannabis-related stigma operates through healthcare and child welfare systems with the goal of informing more equitable, evidence-based policies and practices for parenting patients.