Compiled by Savana Robinson

The information in this article is taken from a press release courtesy of the Cal Poly Humboldt Cannabis Studies Program.

The second annual Cannabis and Environmental Stewardship Symposium will be held on Friday, March 28, from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Native American Forum at Cal Poly Humboldt. The symposium will feature 23 speakers, three panels, two presentations, a town hall, and free food for breakfast and lunch. 

Among the speakers is Cal Poly Humboldt Associate Professor of Native American studies, Kaitlin Reed, the university’s Traditional Ecological Knowledge faculty fellow and the co-director of the Rou Dalagurr Food Sovereignty Lab & Traditional Ecological Knowledges Institute. Michael Polson, the director of UC Berkeley’s Cannabis Research Center and a member of the State of California’s Cannabis Advisory Committee, is also scheduled to speak.

The symposium will explore current and possible policy options for encouraging sustainable cannabis agriculture and ideal practices for legal cannabis production that challenge the existing set of rules and regulations.

The symposium is produced by the Cal Poly Humboldt cannabis studies program cannabis studies lab and funded through the Land-Sea Connection Program of Resources Legacy Fund, made possible by the Keith Campbell Foundation for the Environment.