“The military's posture is zero tolerance,” Almonte said. “It was really really tough for me to wrap my brain around this concept, but it was good for me to find this program because this program really allowed me to see cannabis from all of these perspectives.”
With her new degree, Almonte recently finished the manuscript for a book on cannabis. She’s also working on a pilot for a cannabis ecotourism television series.
Almonte received her Master's in Medical Cannabis Science and Therapeutics from the University of Maryland, Baltimore. The program is the first graduate program of its kind in the nation. Leah Sera, the program’s director, said that the program focuses on the pharmacology and pharmaceutics related to cannabis medicine.