420 with CNW – University of Maryland Mulls Offering a Master’s in Marijuana

Summer Kriegshauser is a Washington DC denizen studying for her second master’s degree online. Each day before she goes to work, she logs in to a website and goes through her lectures and classwork. She is hopeful that she will be able to change careers with additional qualifications. She is studying for a Masters of Science in Medical Cannabis Science and Therapeutics. Kriegshauser is one of the 150 students who are the pioneers of the marijuana masters graduate program at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, in the U.S. This is a standalone program. However, some universities are providing students with one-off classes on marijuana, and two others have created an undergraduate degree in medicinal plant chemistry, but none has gone as far as Maryland by offering a master’s degree in cannabis. The program is carried out over a period of two years, and the highest percentage of the courses are online-based. The program comes at a time when the number of states legalizing marijuana for both medical and recreational use is on the rise.  This is creating ever-expanding opportunities for people looking to grow in the cannabis industry, and given the dynamism of the marijuana industry and laws related to…

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