A Denver law firm that focuses on cannabis law has sponsored a prestigious Colorado law school with a three-year, $45,000 professorship for marijuana law and policy, The Cannabist has exclusively learned.

The University of Denver’s Sturm College of Law professor Sam Kamin will be the first Vicente Sederberg Professor of Marijuana Law and Policy at the private college headquartered in south Denver. Pot law firm Vicente Sederberg LLC has committed $15,000 per year for three years to the professorship, which they say is the first of its kind in the world.

“It’s not an exaggeration to say that this field wouldn’t exist without the work Vicente Sederberg has done here and throughout the country,” Kamin told The Cannabist on Monday. “Brian (Vicente) was a student of mine 10 years ago, so the distance he’s come and the things he and his firm have done in a pretty short time is pretty amazing. So it’s an honor to be getting this.” [Read more at The Cannabist at The Denver Post]