HCPS 2700 - Medical Cannabis Law and Ethics

Credits: 3

Description: Students in this course will survey the major legal and ethical issues of the health care cannabis systems in the United States. The course covers the legal issues surrounding the relationships of patient, provider, and health care institution as well as historical considerations of cannabis. There will be specific inquiry into how organizations that work with cannabis manage from a legal standpoint. Further, the course will focus on shareholder responsibility, corporate compliance, key cases that control cannabis health care law, federal and state considerations as well as the ongoing changes that are taking place currently. Ethics from the standpoint of the grower, distributor and user will also be considered.