College launches research institute devoted to pot

[Dave_Berry]

<p>"A public university located in one of California’s prime pot-growing regions has formed an academic institute devoted to marijuana.</p>

<p>The Humboldt Institute for Interdisciplinary Marijuana Research at Humboldt State University plans to sponsor scholarly lectures and coordinate research among 11 faculty members from fields such as economics, geography, politics, psychology and sociology." …</p>

<p>HIGHer Education.</p>

<p>[College</a> launches research institute devoted to pot](<a href=“http://www.bigstory.ap.org/article/college-launches-research-institute-devoted-pot]College”>http://www.bigstory.ap.org/article/college-launches-research-institute-devoted-pot)</p>

[OHMomof2]

<p>Really should include medical studies there too:

based mostly on research overseas there is an increasing consensus that the medicinal benefits of psychoactive THC pale in comparison to the non-psychoactive cannabidiol (CBD) from the leaves of the same plant–raw and unheated.

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