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Table 1 Mention of side effects and legal/regulatory aspects across different website typologies

From: Online information on medical cannabis is not always aligned with scientific evidence and may raise unrealistic expectations

Typology

Side effects

Legal/regulatory

Commercial

17% (1/6)

50% (3/6)

Government

25% (6/24)

92% (22/24)

Health portals

100% (7/7)a

71% (5/7)

News

5% (5/91)a

84% (76/91)

Non-profit

57% (8/14)a

71% (10/14)

Professional

44% (4/9)

67% (6/9)

Scientific journal

33% (4/12)

58% (7/12)

Others

31% (4/13)

85% (11/13)

  1. aSignificantly different vs the rest of the SERP by a two-tailed Fisher’s test followed by adjustment for eight multiple comparisons using the two-stage linear step-up procedure of Benjamini, Krieger, and Yekutieli set at a false discovery rate of 5%