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Since Method Man’s fictional Silas P. Silas first brought cannabis genetics into his Harvard horticulture classes in the stoner comedy classic How High, we’ve been dreaming of a world where college courses on weed are as common as business and chemistry.
And while anyone with a few dollars in their pocket can attend a number of marijuana-specific schools that have popped up in California and Colorado in the years since legalization, the sweet leaf hasn’t quite cracked into the mainstream of American higher education. At Philadelphia’s Temple University and the University of California at Berkeley students can learn how to cover the cannabis industry from a journalist’s perspective, but when it comes to breaking down the science and business of ganja, federal prohibition has scared off most school’s from ever touching the still-controversial plant.
However, in Israel, where THC was first discovered and advancements in medical cannabis research have been a point of civic pride, a fully accredited college course is giving students a comprehensive education in all things reefer.