Want practical experience growing marijuana, but have no idea how to get a plant? Or just not comfortable growing cannabis at home?
Try stinging nettle, which is a plant that’s distantly related to cannabis and has similar growth patterns.
That’s just one of many workarounds Dana Milstein had to learn as she developed curriculum for UC Riverside’s new extension program focused on cannabis, which is the first program of its kind at a public university in California.
Just four years ago, graduate students at universities across Southern California were being told they couldn’t do research projects related to cannabis because administrators worried that any link to the field might hurt the school’s federal funding and its reputation. Today, UC Los Angeles, UC San Diego and UC Irvine all have dedicated cannabis research centers.
Still, it’s not yet common for universities to offer even extension courses related to cannabis. And it’s even less common for colleges to give credits for such classes, as UC Riverside is doing.
But that figures to change. Today, the nation’s cannabis industry supports an estimated 250,000 full-time jobs, according to a 2020 report from industry group Leafly. That’s with recreational cannabis legal in 15 states and medicinal cannabis legal in 34 states. Given that Democrats currently control congress and the White House, there’s a…
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Want practical experience growing marijuana, but have no idea how to get a plant? Or just not comfortable growing cannabis at home?
Try stinging nettle, which is a plant that’s distantly related to cannabis and has similar growth patterns.
That’s just one of many workarounds Dana Milstein had to learn as she developed curriculum for UC Riverside’s new extension program focused on cannabis, which is the first program of its kind at a public university in California.
Just four years ago, graduate students at universities across Southern California were being told they couldn’t do research projects related to cannabis because administrators worried that any link to the field might hurt the school’s federal funding and its reputation. Today, UC Los Angeles, UC San Diego and UC Irvine all have dedicated cannabis research centers.
Still, it’s not yet common for universities to offer even extension courses related to cannabis. And it’s even less common for colleges to give credits for such classes, as UC Riverside is doing.
But that figures to change. Today, the nation’s cannabis industry supports an estimated 250,000 full-time jobs, according to a 2020 report from industry group Leafly. That’s with recreational cannabis legal in 15 states and medicinal cannabis legal in 34 states. Given that Democrats currently control congress and the White House, there’s a…
