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Institutional development · Research, innovation and assessment · Brazil

Specialist outlet Sechat features UFSC master's research on long-term cannabis use in pets

A veterinarian studying for a master's degree at the Federal University of Santa Catarina's Curitibanos campus had her research on cannabis for dogs and cats covered by Portal Sechat.

Photo: Lionel Baur / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0

Why it matters: The Conventional and Integrative Veterinary Medicine postgraduate programme at UFSC's Curitibanos campus gains outside media coverage of one of its master's students' research.

According to the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), research by veterinarian Lorena Oliveira was the subject of a report published by Portal Sechat, an outlet specialising in medicinal cannabis information.

UFSC said Oliveira is a master's student in its Postgraduate Programme in Conventional and Integrative Veterinary Medicine, based at the Curitibanos campus.

The university's newsroom described her work as studying the long-term use of cannabis in dogs and cats.

Editor’s view

Scott James, Research and Innovation Editor

The coverage concerns one master's student in UFSC's Conventional and Integrative Veterinary Medicine programme at Curitibanos, whose long-term research on cannabis for dogs and cats has now been reported by a specialist medicinal cannabis outlet.

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