ChirpE - CWCBExpo Boston 2019: Sessions

Cannabis and Hemp Academia Town Hall (Room 109)

26 Oct 19

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Tracks: Cannabis, Community & Society

Speaker(s): Nadir Pearson, Graduate Student, Brown University; Founder/CEO, SMART (Student Marijuana Alliance for Research & Transparency); Joe Gilmore, Co-Founder & President, Massachusetts Recreational Consumer Council; Marion McNabb, CEO & Co-Founder, Cannabis Community Care & Research Network (C3RN); Founder, MASS Hemp Coalition; Steve White, Professor, Management & Markeeting, UMass Dartmouth;

Moderator(s): Brett Greene, Research Administrator, Center for Drug Discovery, Northeastern University

Many U.S. universities have begun adding cannabis and hemp courses to their curricula. Whether in the plant sciences, law, public affairs, medicine, biology, and many more disciplines, cannabis is finding its way into academia at every turn. Is cannabis in the classroom a fad? Or will this billion dollar industry continue to spread to New England Universities?