Legal Implications for Horticulturalist Working with Medicinal Cannabis

This presentation will highlight a hot trend in health care and horticultural science—the emergence of marijuana as a mainstream medicine. Fifteen states have laws protecting this plant-medicine, and hundreds of thousands of Americans use it for medicinal purposes. This discussion will highlight current laws, science, and policy around this issue—including the growth in horticultural employment in the states and cities where medical marijuana cultivation is legal.