Over the past decade it has proven difficult to effectively develop educational initiatives pertinent to the cannabis/hemp technology platform due to government regulation and societal concerns.  To address this issue, CFS (Critical Fluid Symposia) - starting in 2015 - utilizing a Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Canada, embarked on a consistent program to improve this situation on a global basis utilizing several mechanisms.  In this presentation, three of those initiatives in Canada, New Zealand, and Colombia will be described in detail involving two universities and a government-funded R&D organization. First, in 2017, participation was initiated in a Capstone senior design course, involving mentoring as an industrial advisor, student-led teams involved in design, modeling, economic analysis of the supercritical carbon dioxide extraction of cannabis/hemp - followed in 2018, by a Capstone project in post-extraction processing of cannabis extracts.  In addition, in 2020 and 2021, during the Spring semester at University of Alberta, teams addressing a comparison of CO<sub>2</sub> vs. ethanol extraction and hemp seed oil extraction, respectively.  In 2019, a nine-week interface was facilitated through a visiting researcher appointment at Callaghan Innovation in Wellington, NZ, involving seminars/workshops before industrial companies and academic groups in the North and South islands, including indigenous Mori peoples in New Zealand.  In the Covid era (2021-2022), a series of 8-, 2-, and 5-embedded lectures, respectively, were delivered to audiences via the Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Bogota) multi-week educational initiatives. This program as well as collaborative research involving subcritical water hydrolysis of hemp seed oil with a PhD student from the Universidad del Norte in Barranquilla, Colombia will be described in detail.  These outreach activities along with in person and virtual presentations/demonstrations at various cannabis-themed conferences, including CAN-sponsored sessions at ACS Meetings, such as the recent El-Sohly and Spencer Award events, will be cited during this presentation.

Advancing cannabis/hemp technology platform through an educational-consulting interface (CFS)

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