The University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) is launching a new cannabis research center with the help of a federal grant. The university 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 overall purpose of the center is to “provide guidance on regulations, quality standards and best practices.”

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.

Read the full article HERE.