And for the casual, infrequent marijuana user, it’s paid off in Canada’s first PhD in cannabis production. Caplan’s interest in cannabis science stemmed from the horticultural courses he took as an afterthought during his time as an undergraduate in environmental sciences at Guelph. There will doubtless be more and more postgraduate degrees based on cannabis production after it has been legalized, says Anja Geitmann, dean of agriculture at Montreal’s McGill University. Zheng told him there were no postgraduate openings in cannabis research at the time, but that something may well open up in the near future. A survey of other major agricultural schools across the country found none had produced a PhD in cannabis production and Zheng says Caplan’s achievement is likely a North American first.

Source: thestar September 08, 2018 21:11 UTC