Posted on 08/08/2019 6:46:01 PM PDT by Twotone
More and more schools are developing and launching programs to study marijuana, a reflection of the psychoactive plant’s growing legal status across the country.
In recent years schools such as Northern Michigan University have offered students the chance to study the controversial plant in an academic setting. Now even the Ivy League is offering such an opportunity.
This fall, Cornell University “will offer the undergraduate course ‘Cannabis: Biology, Society and Industry,’ which will focus on exploring the history, culture, pharmacology, horticulture and legal challenges associated with cannabis,” Quartz reports. Next year the school will launch a master’s degree focusing on the study of marijuana.
Multiple other institutions have adopted similar programs:
In June, the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy announced the launch of a master’s degree in medical cannabis science and therapeutics. The two-year program starts in late August, which also is when the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia will offer the first of four courses in a new MBA option for students interested in studying the cannabis industry. And in Canada, which last year became the second country in the world to legalize weed nationwide, McGill University plans to offer a graduate degree in cannabis production starting in 2020.
The growing number of colleges adding degrees and courses in cannabis (there are also online cannabis certificate programs out there) reflects a hot industry with needs for both high-level and broad-based skills, whether in horticulture, chemistry, entrepreneurship, pharmacology, policy and regulation, communication, or the law…
“If you’re going to go into the industry, you really need to know all aspects of the industry,” says Carlyn S. Buckler, an associate professor at Cornell’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, who designed the school’s new undergraduate cannabis course.
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Ridiculous! Whoever heard of studying plants or drugs?
Another useful degree that will provide someone with the life skills to survive the coming economic collapse or civil war.
Botany.
Wasn’t there when my choice was Mech Engr.
That is a really, really good thing.
Professor Cheech or Chong?
Higher education. Quite high.
A weird college degree we can officially call ‘dopey!’
I don’t see how professors need to teach anything when everything about cannabis can be learned online.
With a minor in Feminist Studies and a concentration in Strategies in Opposition To Male Toxicity. Ready for a great career. If Costco still needs box boys (or gals) for the midnight shift.
Funny.
And as always, please give to the college of your choice./s
Professor says, “Welcome to class! Hee, hee, hee, hee!!!”
I already took graduate courses back when.
;)
So what employment opportunities exist other than teaching within this education field? No student loans for nonemployment degrees.
Ridiculous! Whoever heard of someone named Botany?
Homework....need more homework....
I thought that was what middle and high schools were for? Silly me.
That lazy guy slouched over there?
He’s got a PhD.
It’s cannibis silly people
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