In 2022, Dr. Jeff Rawson founded the Institute of Cannabis Science (ICS), a nonprofit organization that produces Honest Data About Weed.  The mission of ICS is to conduct cannabis research that educates consumers, guide regulators to adopt testing regulations that are based on science, and ensure that products are safe for patients and consumers.

Jeff entered the cannabis field as a Postodoctoral Research Fellow in the lab of Prof. George M. Whitesides at Harvard, when he was awarded a grant from the T.S. Chan School of Public Health to study cannabis electronic cigarettes. In December 2022, he made a presentation entitled Misinformation in Cannabis Markets to the members of the Massachusetts (MA) Cannabis Advisory Board Research Subcommittee.  Jeff has presented recommendations for corrective actions to prevent misinformation in the MA cannabis market.  The Boston Globe has published his letters about the challenges of cannabis regulatory science.

Dr. Rawson earned a MS in organic chemistry from the University of Vermont and a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from Duke University, where he studied the quantum dynamics of organometallic dyes for applications in artificial photosynthesis & electron transport. After a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Juelich Research Center (German), where he studied single molecules on reactive metal surfaces, Jeff moved to Harvard University (Cambridge, MA), where he contributed to research in soft robotics and molecular electronics in the group of Dr. George Whitesides before beginning his research on cannabis.