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Saturday, September 16, 2023

UCLA Going to Pot? Who Knew?

A lengthy article in the LA Times includes this phrase: "[Maha] Haq founded a first-of-its-kind cannabis-education student group called Cannaclub at UCLA in 2018, they’ve benefited from her uncanny ability to connect — and connect with — members of the SoCal cannabis community."*

And the article goes on:

It was at UCLA, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in sociology with a minor in mathematics, that Haq’s considerable skill of connecting members of the cannabis crowd — industry, community, teachers, thought leaders and government officials among them — began to manifest after she convinced the school to let her start a cannabis-focused student group called Cannaclub. “I’d been lobbying them for years to let us start a student organization focusing on cannabis education and destigmatization,” she explains. “But it wasn’t until 2018 [after adult use was legal] that they finally said yes.”

Soon Haq was wrangling guests from on and off campus to educate (and, in the case of brands seeking insight on cannabis-consumer preferences, be educated by) college students curious about the cannabis space...

Curious blog readers can go to https://cannaclubatucla.org/ for more information.

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*https://www.latimes.com/lifestyle/story/2023-09-14/maha-haq-ucla-cannabis-club-founder-weed-whisperer-for-gen-z.

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