Students in professor Jay D. Wexler's cannabis law class at the Boston University School of Law shouldn't have trouble remembering where the three-credit seminar is hosted in the Law Tower. He makes sure that it's always hosted in Room 420.
Inspired by President Joe Biden's call to review cannabis' classification as a Schedule I controlled substance and many states' moves to legalize weed for medical and general use, an increasing number of law schools around the country are offering cannabis law courses.
In the 2022-2023 academic year, 45 law schools—or about 22% of the 197 ABA-accredited schools—offered a combined total of 47 cannabis law courses, according to research by the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law's Drug Enforcement and Policy Center. Although that's an increase of 24 schools compared to four years earlier in the 2018-2019 academic year, some professors think that even more are needed.
"We're still playing catch-up," says Robert Mikos, a professor at the Vanderbilt University Law School who has taught a class on marijuana law and policy for more than 10 years.
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