Burchell Whiteman
KINGSTON, Jamaica – The University of Technology (UTech), Jamaica on last Thursday received a machine that will advance its research of the scientific and medicinal properties of the cannabis (marijuana) plant.
UTech, in a release Tuesday, said they received the first QuantaCann2 analytical machine, which was donated by Steep Hill Labs Inc USA – a California-based medical cannabis laboratory with which the University last year signed a Memorandum of Understanding.
It is the first such analytical machine in Jamaica.
Acting president, Ambassador Burchell Whiteman, in receiving the QuantaCann2 Machine, said that it will break frontiers and place UTech at the forefront of research on cannabis.
“This will be of particular national relevance as Jamaica moves forward with legislation for the decriminalisation of marijuana for medicinal and industrial purposes,” he said.
The machine is located in the pharmaceutics research laboratory within the School of Pharmacy, College of Health Sciences.
