Colorado Seeks Permission To Grow Pot At State Universities [More Jobs For Chinese & indians]

LATimes ^ | January 25, 2015 | DAVID KELLY

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Colorado Seeks Permission To Grow Pot At State Universities

By DAVID KELLY After years of trying to stamp out marijuana use on college campuses, Colorado officials are now asking the federal government to allow its state universities to grow their own pot.

The reason, they say, is that the legalization of the drug here has raised questions about its health effects, questions that can only be answered by studying large amounts and different strains of marijuana.

Why not have the best and brightest working on discovering not only the dangers but also the therapeutic benefits of marijuana? - Colorado state Rep. Dan Pabon, a Democrat who helped craft marijuana laws But researchers face bureaucratic hurdles in scoring pot from the one federally approved marijuana farm, a 12-acre facility at the University of Mississippi's National Center for Natural Products Research.

In a letter to federal regulators last month, Colorado Deputy Atty. Gen. David Blake said research into the "medicinal value or detriment of marijuana, particularly those strains not grown and made available by the federal government, have become important to the national debate over marijuana legalization."

Current research, he said, is "riddled with bias or insufficiencies" and federal help is needed to fill in the gaps.

[CincyRichieRich]

Perhaps they could have a class for post studies and combine it with a sexual relations study class...and also anthropology and sociology and have one for communal relations...one class assignment would be attend one homosexual orgy and one heterosexual and write a paper on the pros and cons of each and how the pot helped.

[CincyRichieRich]

I meant pot studies.

[Mastador1]

I meant pot studies.

The next new throw away liberal degree, only this one might actually have students show up to class.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Let the commie and Marxist “perfesers” grow their own pot just make sure to “tax the hell out of it”. The commies need to pay taxes at least once in their lives.

[Wolfie]

Good idea. God knows there haven’t been any such.studies done to date.

[Jabba the Nutt]

"...questions that can only be answered by studying large amounts and different strains of marijuana."

Shouldn't be hard to find a zillion volunteers to "study" the different brands, er, strains of marijuana.