Elie Dolgin, PHD, Science Journalist

What legal weed in Canada means for science

Elie Dolgin • Oct 17, 2018

Opportunities abound to improve the cultivation of a once-forbidden plant.

Jonathan Page has been around cannabis all his life. Growing up on Canada’s Vancouver Island in the 1970s, he was surrounded by hippie beachcombers and dope smokers. So after earning a PhD in plant biology and phytochemistry, he felt completely at ease working with the plant Cannabis sativa as a postdoc in Germany in the early 2000s.


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