The Pueblo Chieftain editorial: Cannabis institute opens conference today; more than 500 expected
Pueblo and Colorado State University-Pueblo’s Institute of Cannabis Research is in the national marijuana spotlight this weekend.
The institute’s international, multidisciplinary cannabis research conference opens today and runs through Sunday on the school’s Belmont campus.
It is open to the public with a registration fee of $350 per person. Jen Mullen, interim managing director of the institute, said more than 500 people are expected to attend.
“We are welcoming scientists, researchers, scholars, elected officials, and industry experts from 20 different states and five different countries. Scientists are coming from Israel, Canada, Australia, Spain and South Africa,” Mullen said.
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