Expedite Research On Medicinal Usage Of Cannabis: Jitendra Singh

By Outlook on June 9, 2023

Singh stressed that a synergy between the country’s premier institutions such as CSIR-IIIM, the Indian Institutes of Management (IIM), Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) and All India Institutes of Medical Sciences was important to realise the full potential of the cannabis research work.

Science and Technology Minister Jitendra Singh on Thursday urged scientists to expedite research on cannabis and explore its medicinal capabilities in curing neuropathies, cancer and epilepsy.

Singh was chairing a meeting to review the ‘Cannabis Research Project’ undertaken by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research-Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine (CSIR-IIIM) in Jammu.

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