More and more universities in the United States are starting to offer ‘cannabis classes’ to students wanting to learn more about the plant.
Cannabis is a multi-billion pound industry across the pond, with increasing numbers of states seeking to legalise it.
As such, we’re seeing an explosion of innovative products and companies popping up – keeping the US economy afloat with green dollar bills.
So it makes sense that as weed increasingly seeks to pervade American life, that it gets some representation in academia.
Universities across the states are starting to offer the classes in the hope of delving deeper into the legal and biological ramifications of cannabis use.
According to Forbes, institutions like the University of Vermont, Ohio State University and the University of California, Davis (ofc) are offering a syllabus on the ‘biology and use of marijuana as well as legal issues around it’.
But if you think that this just some fun extracurricular class, think again. Students can choose whether to earn credits towards their final degrees from these weed seminars or not.
At the University of Vermont, students can study ‘Medical Cannabis’ at graduate level – a programme that focuses on Cannabis chemistry, its effects and the emerging therapeutic uses – alongside the ‘political and socio-economic influences on marijuana laws’.
‘Educating people about the science of cannabis and the legal issues surrounding it allows people to enter the industry in a more legitimate way, equipped with real data and real knowledge, not myths,’ cannabis industry consultant Shannon Vetto tells Forbes.
America has two actual cannabis colleges – the THC University and the Cannabis Training University, but the fact that standard academic institutions are beginning to recognise the value in researching and teaching about the herb goes even further to legitimising the industry.
credit:420intel.com
