Nearly $1 million in grants has been awarded to a variety of cannabis studies taking place in Colorado, including research into impairment, cultivation efficiency, and health benefits and risks of marijuana use.
The Colorado State University-Pueblo's Institute of Cannabis Research (ICR) announced last week that $800,000 in school grants will fund six studies at CSU and University of Colorado campuses across the state. According to the ICR, the studies are now part of twenty ongoing cannabis research projects funded by the institute, which has published forty studies on marijuana and hemp since 2018.
The ICR first opened in 2015 and is largely funded by retail marijuana tax revenue, but it didn't have the money to support research conducted at schools outside of CSU until the pandemic ended. The more collaborative approach allows for better research and further dissemination of information, according to ICR director Chad Kelly.
The first statewide cannabis studies with state funding have been researching topics such as the prenatal impact of CBD use, medical marijuana's effectiveness at treating post-surgery pain, and retail marijuana labeling. Those results should be ready by next year, Kelly notes, with enough funding left for the ICR to issue more grants for the next two years.
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