Universities in Illinois are going to create new programs for students, who want to know more about marijuana. The school says that they are going to create programs at the campus in Carbondale in order to study medical marijuana and industrial hemp. Officials are hoping that the programs will give students and farmers a chance to earn a new certificate on the subject. In joining the growing number of colleges around the country, who are offering courses related to marijuana, SIU and their interdisciplinary program in cannabis science will now mixture with their agriculture and plant biology, with courses in subjects ranging from chemistry to business to engineering. SIU researchers already have an approval from the Drug Enforcement Administration to grown hemp. School leaders say that they hope to begin planting next spring, on a 5-acre parcel of land.