New Cannabis Research Partnership

Jennifer Polanz

If there’s one production segment that needs more research, it’s cannabis. That’s changing with more partnerships emerging with university researchers, including a new one between The Hemp Mine in South Carolina and Clemson University.

The new collaboration is called the Cannabis Research Coalition (CRC), a not-for profit that will research cultivation and post-harvest issues that are a challenge in the cannabis industry. Dr. Allison Justice of The Hemp Mine will partner with Dr. Jim Faust’s Flowering Physiology Laboratory at Clemson to “advance the exploration of the cannabis plant and implement science-based research to develop the techniques required to create a sustainable, efficient and profitable industry,” according to a media announcement. The initiative allows stakeholders in the industry to join in to combine resources to fund the research that provides practical answers to production.

“This is an exciting time for the cannabis industry,” Allison said. “As most states now have cannabis production, as hemp or marijuana, (now is) the time to come together to push this industry forward with solid research and science.”

Jim agrees. “We are at an unprecedented time in the history of plant science where we have an incredibly valuable plant for which there is almost zero scientific research,” he says. “The opportunities to improve production methods with solid data are vast. It is truly a unique and exciting time to be a horticultural scientist.”

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