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Oaksterdam University: Higher Education...In Cannibo Veritas

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"The school prepares people for jobs in California's thriving medical marijuana industry. For $200 and the cost of two required textbooks, students learn how to cultivate and cook with cannabis, study which strains of pot are best for certain ailments, and are instructed in the legalities of a business that is against the law in the eyes of the federal government.

'My basic idea is to try to professionalize the industry and have it taken seriously as a real industry, just like beer and distilling hard alcohol,' said Richard Lee, 45, an activist and pot-dispensary owner who founded the school in a downtown storefront last fall."

Is there any financial aid available?
JordanRoth

12 responses // Oaksterdam University: Higher Education...In Cannibo Veritas

  • Can anyone sign up? It seems like yes...is that a problem?
    Tori
  • Tori, I would have to assume, since they do offer courses on the legal ins and outs of Prop 215 Law, that everything is legit within the scope of 215. Checking to see if you have a prescription and valid medical card are probably the FIRST checks they do.

    I am not ill; I do not use medical marijuana. If I was sick though, medical bills piling up, I wouldn't want to BUY the stuff from some dealer. I hope that this school helps people of all backgrounds get access to safe (albiet lazy-making) herbs without funneling money into organized crime.
    JordanRoth
  • um, why the disclaimer "albeit lazy-making" when mentioning the herbs?

    it would seem that this is the point of the school - to get the info to everyone that wants to grow so that you don't need to go o a druglord-backed dealer.
    pakazak
  • @pakazak:

    The disclaimer is designed to not polarize the reader. If some Ann Coulter loving Neo Con comes on, I don't want them to ever be able to talk smack about my beloved Current for not being "fair and balanced."

    I know plenty of highly functional herb smokers, I would say though, that they are not in the majority.
    JordanRoth
  • JRoth

    I can understand that approach. thanks for the insight.

    I think that you might be surprised by % of users in the general population.

    Maybe you wouldn't.

    I suppose it depends on the environment and the circle of friends.
    pakazak
  • http://www.cannabiscollege.com/#
    I agree that this shouldn't be a 'free-for-all' entry policy that means any Tom, Dick or Harry can apply, the appropriate controls should be put in place to make sure the people being taught 'need' the skills...

    But I also doubt there would be too many youngsters wanting to sign up to learn cultivation skills from some lecturer somewhere. Surely, the kids that want to know are at home, possibly smoking pot and more than likely hooked up to the net?

    The internet is a place where information on such topics is in abundance, give it a googlewhack and see the floods of websites and links, and if not they could always go to Amsterdam's 'Cannabis College' and 'learn it from the masters.'
    mattbrawn
  • VC2 producer Phil Eastman profiled Oaksterdam and its students in a pod that should hit the air in the next couple of weeks.

    Stay tuned!
    drutenberg
  • I'll look forward to it. If you could, when it is scheduled, could you add a response with the time it is airing?
    JordanRoth
  • It will be online too, of course. I'll keep an eye out for it, and post it as a comment on this thread as well, or if any of you catch it before I do, feel free to do the same! :)
    Tori
  • most definalty i think that it would be beneficial to people taking m.j. for medical purposes... but hopefully sometime in the future... probably far futrure, the class could be available to anyone... on the medicine or not... personally yes... i would like to take a class like that... there is so much you have to know to put an herb into your body safly... and i would like to know al lthe ways... mamking a class like this available to people who will use it for it's intended purpose could benefit humanity... i truely think it could... IF PEOPLE WOULD ACCEPT THE TRUTH THAT IT"S NOT DETREMENTAL
    katelinsdandelion
  • I would greatly appreciate helping out the cause in any way possible. I am a musician and the people who listen to my music are aware that i am a marijuana actavist myself, maybe i could get the word out through my performance. If that isnt the direction you are going for let me know how I could help.

    for all the enviormentalists marijuana could help reduce the green house kinda enviornent we are living in now.. it costs less money to produce than cotton.. its stronger industrialy than alot of woods that americans use to build houses and has many more benificial qualities aside from the one obvious reason that people love so much about it.

    thanks jordan, i can only hope your voice will be heard.

    P.S.

    please excuse any spelling errors.
    bluesylee
  • right on bluesylee... right on
    katelinsdandelion

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