With campus police officers strolling by and school administrators within earshot, students openly discussed marijuana Friday.
What would have once been risky behavior is now a networking opportunity. At a cannabis industry fair at Stockton University, students mingled with employers and vendors. Those interested in the subject range from business students to environmental studies students, said Ekaterina Sedia, coordinator for the school’s Cannabis Studies program.
“We get a really good mix of majors coming into this minor,” Sedia said. “There seems to be a lot of people kind of realizing, ‘So, OK, here’s this new industry. With the degree that I already have, and this new minor, I will be able to find the niche, still kind of working in my field but within this kind of new umbrella.”
Friday’s Cannabis Career Fair and Business Expo, the first of its kind at the school, was hosted by the Cannabis Studies program and the New Jersey CannaBusiness Association.