Dr. Ashley Brooks-Russel, Cannabis Impaired Driving and Questions About Tolerance

February 2021

The Institute of Cannabis Research’s monthly webinar for February 2021 featured Dr. Ashley Brooks-Russell from The University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. Dr. Brooks-Russell is an assistant professor and Director of the Program for Injury Prevention, Education and Research Program at the Colorado School of Public Health, CU Anschutz. She completed her Ph.D. in Health Behavior at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NIH). Her recent work has focused on cannabis use and the association of policy changes with changes in cannabis use and related outcomes. She presented a webinar titled “Cannabis Impaired Driving and Questions About Tolerance”.

Feb 2021 – Dr. Ashley Brooks Russell, Cannabis Impaired Driving and Questions About Tolerance

Previous Webinars

Joshua Gowin, PhD

Aug 13, 2026 01:00 PM Mountain Time

Brain Function Outcomes of Recent and Lifetime Cannabis Use

Joshua Gowin, PhD, is an Associate Professor within the Department of Radiology at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. As a neuroscientist, his primary research program investigates the neural mechanisms of addiction, specifically focusing on how substance use alters frontostriatal […]

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Andrew Maxwell Phineas Jones, PhD

July 15th @ 11:00AM MT

Ten years of Cannabis micropropagation: What has changed and what are the best uses

 Dr. A.M.P. (Max) Jones is a professor and leading researcher in cannabis biotechnology at the University of Guelph, Canada. For the last decade his research has focused on plant tissue culture and micropropagation systems for cannabis and in 2018 his lab […]

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Kent Hutchison

July 9, 2026, 1 PM Moutain Time

Dr. Kent Hutchison is a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus and Director of the Rocky Mountain Center for Cannabis Research. He received his Ph.D. from Oklahoma State University, completed postdoctoral training at Brown University, and has developed NIH-funded programs of research spanning alcohol, […]

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Tony P. George, MD, FRCPC

June 11, 2026 at 1 PM MDT

Understanding the links between cannabis use and mental illness: Implications for treatment

 

Dr. George is Professor of Psychiatry in the Temerty Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto (UofT), and Senior Scientist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). He received his B.Sc. (1988) and M.D. (1992) degrees from […]

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Jacob MacWilliams, Ph.D.

May 20, 2026 11:00AM MDT

Unlocking the mystery of a key hemp pest, cannabis aphid

Dr. Jacob MacWilliams is a research scientist in Dr. Punya Nachappa’s lab in the Agricultural Biology Department at Colorado State University. Jacob received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of California, Riverside focusing on cowpea aphid resistance in […]

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