10th Annual Scientific Meeting
Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA | July 17-19, 2026
The 10th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Research Society on Marijuana will be held in Albuquerque, NM, from July 17-19, 2026, at Hotel Albuquerque.
We will be celebrating our 10th anniversary where it all began. Consider submitting a symposium, panel, or individual abstract to be part of this growing community as we commemorate a decade of outstanding contributions to cannabis research.
If you need help finding a roommate for the conference, our student representatives have launched a Group-Me to connect students and trainees who are searching for a roommate.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Matthew Pearson, PhD, Founding President
Matthew R. Pearson (aka Mateo), is a Research Professor at the University of New Mexico's Center on Alcohol, Substance use, And Addictions (CASAA). Trained as an experimental psychologist, he is broadly interested in substance-related harm reduction. As the director of the Mechanisms of Addiction Treatment and Ecological Observations (MATEO) laboratory, much of his grant-funded research has used ecological momentary assessment (EMA) to test the efficacy and psychological mechanisms of various interventions ranging from mindfulness-based interventions, cognitive retraining (e.g., attentional bias modification, working memory training), and a just-in-time adaptive intervention targeting alcohol protective behavioral strategies. His lab also uses EMA to explore mechanisms naturalistically when experimental approaches are not ethical or practical like the mechanisms mobilized by mutual help group involvement (i.e., Alcoholics Anonymous). He served as the coordinating PI of several multi-site studies focused on substance use among college students including the Marijuana Outcomes Study Team (2015-2017), Protective Strategies Study Team (2017), and the Addictions Research Team (2020-present). His is the Founding President of the Research Society on Marijuana (RSMj). He is an accomplished substance use researcher and an unaccomplished comedian (and yes, he insisted on this part being included in this bio).
Adrian Bravo, PhD, Current President
Adrian J. Bravo, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences at the College of William & Mary. He has a PhD in Applied Experimental Psychology from Old Dominion University. His research interests focus on identifying who is most susceptible to the development of substance use and mental health disorders, identifying under what conditions individuals engage in health risk behaviors that lead to poor mental health and problematic substance use, and identifying what factors may decouple (specifically mindfulness) the relation between health risk factors and health outcomes across distinct populations (i.e., college students, clinical populations, and military personnel). He is the Founder and Principal Investigator of the Cross-Cultural Addiction Study Team (CAST; founded in 2016), a collective of international scientists (18 investigators across 7 countries) in the behavioral sciences with a shared vision of answering meaningful research questions regarding addictive behaviors (predominately substance use) that have important global policy, prevention, and/or treatment implications. He is also the Founder and Principal Investigator of the Hispanic Addiction Research Team (HART; founded in 2023) which is a collective of scientists (12 researchers across 8 U.S. universities) in the behavioral sciences with a shared vision of answering meaningful research questions regarding addictive behaviors (predominately substance use) and mental health that have important global policy, prevention, and/or treatment implications within the U.S. Hispanic/Latino community. He has over 160 peer-reviewed publications in academic journals, serves as an Associate Editor on 3 peer-reviewed academic journals (Mindfulness, Cannabis, and Journal of Psychology and AI), and has several funded grants from the U.S. National Institute of Health, Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, and Argentina National Secretary of Science and Technology. Further, he is the current President of RSMj (which he co-founded in 2016).
Jane Metrik, PhD, President-Elect
Jane Metrik, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Departments of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Brown University, based at the Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies (CAAS). She also holds a joint appointment at the Providence VA Medical Center as a research scientist and licensed clinical psychologist. Dr. Metrik received her training in the Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology at the University of California, San Diego/San Diego State University. She completed her clinical psychology residency at Brown University and postdoctoral fellowship at Brown’s CAAS before joining the faculty in 2007. Supported by the NIH and VA, her research focuses on cannabis behavioral pharmacology, ecological momentary assessment, and clinical trials for cannabinoid-based treatments and psychiatric comorbidities. Since establishing Brown’s first human cannabis administration laboratory 20 years ago, she has conducted the first balanced-placebo study of cannabis to disentangle pharmacologic and expectancy effects, developed paradigms for cannabis cue reactivity, and provided the first experimental evidence that cannabis acutely reduces alcohol consumption. Her recent work includes developing technology-based methods to objectively assess behavioral impairment in safety-critical activities such as driving. Collectively, her program has pioneered evidence-based approaches to cannabis science, public health, and clinical decision-making. She has contributed to 24 federally sponsored projects, serving as Principal Investigator on nine awards focused on cannabis. A dedicated mentor, Dr. Metrik is a core faculty member involved in training the next generation of clinical scientists through CAAS and Brown’s Clinical Psychology Training Consortium. She is President-Elect of the Research Society on Marijuana (RSMj).
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