The Cannabis Research Institute (CRI) in Chicago is up and running about a year and a half after it was first announced.
The joint effort by the state and city will focus on research and data to advance public knowledge on scientific and socio-economic impacts of cannabis usage and production.
For now, the CRI is using a lab in a former COVID-19 testing facility in the Illinois Medical Center campus and relying on its DNA sequencing equipment.
According to the Chicago Tribune, the CRI could eventually relocate to the planned new headquarters of the University of Illinois System’s Discovery Partners Institute.
That new building is being proposed for a lot where the Chicago White Sox also want to build a new stadium.
Although construction on the new headquarters should start soon, it likely won’t wrap up until 2027.
