New Federally Backed Marijuana Research Center Launches

A university that, for decades, held a monopoly as the only institution federally authorized to grow marijuana for study purposes is touting the launch of a new cannabis research center it is hosting with the help of a federal grant.

The University of Mississippi has been selected to house the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) Resource Center for Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research (R3CR), which the federal agency first announced in late 2023.

The college will be partnering with Washington State University (WSU) and the United States Pharmacopoeia (USP), with support from a grant awarded by the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) under NIH.

Ole Miss will lead the effort’s regulatory guidance core, while WSU will handle research support and USP will focus on research standards.

Ole Miss’s National Center for Natural Products Research will house the NIH resource center to “provide cannabis research information through an interactive website, webinars, seed funding and conferences” to empower researchers to “generate more science-backed evidence,” it said in a press release.

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