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ENCORE: FGCU's Cannabis Education Certificate Program

MICHAEL FISCHER / PEXELS.COM

Florida Gulf Coast University is taking the lead among Florida’s public universities when it comes to the broader world of medical cannabis. It’s getting ready to offer its new Cannabis Education Certificate Programfor the second time next month, starting on August 7th.

The intensive 5-day workshop is aimed at people in the medical cannabis industry, and members of the public, who want to increase their understanding of cannabis and its effects, the cannabis industry, and the environment in which it operates these days in Florida. The workshop aims to educate participants about the history of cannabis; cannabis laws and policies; the characteristics of the plant; cultivation and extraction techniques; cannabis as a business; its physiology, pharmacology, medicinal uses, and more.

 

We're revisiting a conversation we had back in April with its instructor, Dr. Martha Rosenthal, she is a professor of neuroscience and physiology at Florida Gulf Coast University, and is also Director of Education and Research at the new Cannabis Research, Education, and Workforce Initiative at FGCU.

 

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Julie Glenn is the host of Gulf Coast Live. She has been working in southwest Florida as a freelance writer since 2007, most recently as a regular columnist for the Naples Daily News. She began her broadcasting career in 1993 as a reporter/anchor/producer for a local CBS affiliate in Quincy, Illinois. After also working for the NBC affiliate, she decided to move to Parma, Italy where she earned her Master’s degree in communication from the University of Gastronomic Sciences. Her undergraduate degree in Mass Communication is from the University of Missouri at Kansas City.
Mike Kiniry is producer of Gulf Coast Live, and co-creator and host of the WGCU podcast Three Song Stories: Biography Through Music. He first joined the WGCU team in the summer of 2003 as an intern while studying Communication at Florida Gulf Coast University.