With more patients taking advantage of medical marijuana, SLU wants to make sure professionals are better trained on the use and effects of cannabis.
Dispensary owner Chris Chesley benefits from a trained workforce.”Learning about the terpenes, the cannabinoids, the endocannabinoid system, there’s a lot to know… It’s real business.
“We have a lot of folks with various ailments who go to their doctor and they’re being treated with medicine and they’re also saying ‘I use medical cannabis to treat my symptoms as well’ so doctors aren’t readily versed on how to speak to that,” Godlewski said.Some 30 grad students are now studying cannabis there so they can get a graduate certificate.
If you use the wrong things, it can make it worse…We can tailor protocols per what medical condition they’re dealing with,” Miller said.As marijuana advocates work to push recreational use, SLU is expecting even more interest in higher learning.”Our wheels are turning.