How many of the many law schools in California, Florida and Massachusetts have courses in marijuana law?
The question in the title of this post popped in my head this morning when I realize that three of the states that house nearly nearly 1/4 of all law schools throughout the United States had voters enacting major changes to the marijuana laws this election cycle. Specifically, I believe California alone is home to around 20 law schools, and I believe Florida and Massachusetts together also have around that number.
Of course, not all students who attend law schools in these states do so with plans to practice law within that state, though I strongly suspect that a majority of graduates at the majority of these many schools in these states end up practicing law within the state where they went to law school. For at least some number of law students who plan to work in-state after graduating from law schools in California, Florida and Massachusetts (not to mention in smaller states like Arkansas, Maine, Montana, Nevada and North Dakota), marijuana law is now plainly something they could benefit from studying.
I know of a few great law profs who have developed some form of a marijuana course (or a marijuana-infused drug policy course), but I suspect and fear that far too few schools in these states have even started effectively thinking about how to effectively prepare future lawyers from this complicated and growing legal practice area.
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