(GALLOWAY, NJ) -- A panel of cannabis industry experts will lead a free online webinar focusing on cannabis tourism in Atlantic City on Thursday, March 7. The webinar, titled "Destination Cannabis: Spotlight on Atlantic City," will discuss legal recreational cannabis and its development as a tourism amenity in the resort. The webinar begins at 1:00pm.

Rob Mejia, a teaching specialist in Cannabis Studies at Stockton, will serve as moderator. Mejia is the author of multiple books written specifically to introduce adults to the cannabis industry and is the president of Our Community Harvest: A Cannabis Education Company.

Featured panelists include: Brian Applegarth, founder of the Cannabis Travel Association; Christina Casile, CEO/owner of Design 710, a female-owned dispensary in Atlantic City; and Jon Cohn, founder/CEO of Agri-Kind Brands, a cannabis facility and dispensary in Chester, Pennsylvania.

Following the discussion, the panelists will take questions from the virtual audience.

To register go to stockton.edu/light or call 609-626-3859. For more information, email light@stockton.edu. Once you reserve a spot, the Zoom link for the seminar will be available.

The webinar is co-sponsored by the Lloyd D. Levenson Institute of Gaming, Hospitality and Tourism (LIGHT) at Stockton University’s School of Business and the Cannabis and Hemp Research Initiative at Stockton (CHRIS).

Stockton University is ranked among the top public universities in the nation. Our more than 9,000 students can choose to live and learn on the 1,600-acre wooded main campus in the Pinelands National Reserve in South Jersey and at our coastal residential campus just steps from the beach and Boardwalk in Atlantic City. The university offers more than 160 undergraduate and graduate programs.