More good news for Colorado State University-Pueblo.

Last week, the Colorado General Assembly Joint Budget Committee voted to award the university $1.8 million for its Institute of Cannabis Research.

That’s double the amount the Legislature granted the university last year for its innovative research center. The money will be included in the Long Bill, the spending state budget bill that the Legislature votes on each year.

“(The JBC) sees the value of research,” said Pueblo County Commissioner Sal Pace. “There is great opportunity and the local community has helped the program.”

The county has given the institute $270,000 and will give another $50,000 when the sales tax money rules for recreational marijuana are finally ironed out by the Legislature or the courts.

Read more at the Pueblo Chieftain