CALIFORNIA – The California Division of Hashish Management (DCC) is soliciting proposals for tutorial analysis tasks that advance public understanding of hashish and its legalization. DCC will fund as much as $20 million in cannabis-related tutorial analysis by California public universities and is prioritizing matters that might be instrumental in addressing gaps in scientific data and guiding future coverage choices.
For the primary time, DCC has recognized particular analysis matters that might be prioritized for grant funding, which is able to advance understanding of hashish, tackle current analysis gaps, and inform policymakers. The prioritized matters study hashish efficiency and well being impacts, the well being of California’s hashish business, monopolies and unfair competitors, legacy hashish genetics, and medicinal use of hashish.
Researchers might be required to make analysis findings out there to the general public, for free of charge, with a view to promote extra fast enhancement of scientific understanding of matters researched.
Learn the entire listing of precedence analysis matters, the Request for Proposals and extra details about the grant funding alternative on the DCC web site.
“California continues to direct tens of millions of {dollars} to speed up scientific understanding of hashish and consider the impacts of legalization. Many years of federal hashish prohibition has hindered our collective data associated to those points, to the detriment of customers, communities, our surroundings and extra,” stated Nicole Elliott, DCC director. “Our hope is that analysis ensuing from these grants proves helpful not solely to California policymakers but in addition to these throughout the nation and world.”
The precedence analysis matters had been developed in session with different California state companies that oversee hashish actions and had been chosen to tell future policymaking and higher protect California’s historic data.
Though grant funding is just not restricted to the recognized matters, their prioritization supplies further path to potential grantees keen to assist state hashish leaders shut gaps in analysis. The ensuing analysis and information would proceed to tell and assist the creation of a protected, sustainable, and equitable hashish market that protects folks, safeguards the atmosphere, and supplies grownup entry to protected, examined merchandise.
DCC’s tutorial analysis grants are funded by hashish taxes enacted by Proposition 64 (2016), which legalized adult-use hashish, decriminalized private possession of hashish and started to redress harms of hashish prohibition on people and communities. This $20 million grant alternative builds on the $30 million in analysis grants beforehand awarded to California tutorial universities in 2020. Study extra about previously-funded tasks: https://hashish.ca.gov/about-us/scientific-research/.
Grant proposals might be accepted from November 1 till Nov. 30, 2022. Awarded analysis tasks might be introduced in early February 2023.
The DCC licenses and regulates industrial hashish exercise inside California and works carefully with all stakeholders, together with companies and native jurisdictions, to create a sustainable authorized hashish business and a protected and equitable market. The DCC develops and implements progressive hashish insurance policies with sturdy protections for public well being, security, and the atmosphere. The DCC was fashioned in 2021 by merging the three state applications beforehand accountable for regulating industrial hashish exercise.
To be taught extra in regards to the California hashish market, state licenses and legal guidelines, and to find authorized hashish retailers close to you, go to www.hashish.ca.gov..
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