• Students at Northern Michigan University can now major in medicinal plant chemistry.

• The school created the program in response to growing demand for trained analytical chemists in the marijuana industry.

• Students will not smoke marijuana as part of their coursework.

A small college in the Midwest has launched a program in of its chemistry department that gives new meaning to the phrase “higher education.”

Northern Michigan University is offering a medicinal plant chemistry program — effectively, a major in marijuana — that will prepare students for careers in the burgeoning marijuana industry. It’s the first degree of its kind at read more >>>

Source:: BusinessInsider.Com