With the growing number of states that are changing their regulation of marijuana new businesses are rising across the nation. Marijuana is starting to become a major trend across the Unites States with the medical dispensaries booming and now the “cannabus college.” This is a trade school where your credits are non-transferable and you can get an education in marijuana. Such courses offered include horticulture, political science, biology, “canna-business,” and “methods of ingestion.” The school remains legal in that the school grows dozens of plants as part of its teaching program but complies with the state’s medical marijuana law by serving as the cannabis provider for a patient who has multiple sclerosis. There have been more than 6,000 students already in one particular school founded in Oakland California. It is called Oakesterdam which is a name derived from the city from which it is placed and Amsterdam the marijuana capitol of the world where you can smoke a joint along with your afternoon tea in a public restaurant. Oaksterdam is a trade school that has grown dramatically in the last three years according to the chronicle of higher education “Oaksterdam may be a university only notionally, but at a time when most colleges are lucky if they can tread water, it has grown rapidly. Its main branch opened in a cafe-sized storefront in 2007 and moved to a department-store-sized space a year later. This year it moved yet again, to a 30,000-square-foot converted office building. And satellite campuses have opened in Los Angeles; Sebastopol, Calif.; and Flint, Mich.” Oaksterdam also has a backing from the city council member, “Rebecca Kaplan, praised the school for helping revive the neighborhood, stimulating the local economy and attracting people to downtown Oakland.”“This is a large, growing and thriving business,” she told the crowd at the celebration Thursday evening. “It is bringing customers for all the other businesses. It is a key part of the growth and revitalization of the entire neighborhood.” It is interesting that what was once thought of as a dark and shady trade business of illegal drugs is now creating a growth in the economy of this town. Medical marijuana is growing and I see a potential for regular use to be legalized and taxed. I think that Oaksterdam as a trade school is a great business. If marijuana the multimillion -billion dollar industry that is growing rapidly does have a future in America it might as well be in the education system. It can be looked at as a growing business that if legalized can bring revenue into the economy through school programs such as Oaksterdam, as ridiculous as it sounds it may happen. Also after these students graduate there is a new business creation that can stimulate the economy. I don’t condone the use of marijuana but if it can be regulated and educated and it helps the economy than I say go for it. I think it has a legitimate place in the trade-school realm as long as it is regulated and there is just as much accountability on this school as there is on a regular college or university. Check out the articles posted here and think about if there is a legitimate claim to this school or is it a political stunt? What future does cannabus-college have? If and how will it affect higher education for better or worse? Is there a place for this major on a regular campus or should it be a trade-school?
http://www.cannabisnews.org/united-states-cannabis-news/majoring-in-marijuana-for-medicinal-purposes/
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While marijuana may be considered good for the economy based on taxation, my concern is the loss of productivity if use becomes casual and widespread. Yes, the same the same thing can be said for alcohol, it has both negative and positive effects on the economy. Though, less enforcement efforts would allow those resources to be used better. Anyway, I am still not sure about a student showing up for math class high or smoking on campus. As far as a trade school goes, where there is demand there is a market. Where there is a market there is a need for resources and support.
ReplyDeleteI saw a story on a Denver news station about a Colorado company who is offering classes in "Growing Medical Marijuana". I teasingly told my husband that if the economy doesn't improve soon maybe we should consider turning the backyard into a pot field! I agree with Ray's statement "...where there is demand there is a market. Where there is a market there is a need for resources and support." Isn't that how all vocational programs are developed?
ReplyDeleteThe new war on drugs is the business man. This could work, we could have free trade pot zones where poor farmers would get most of the money for the crop they grow. The drug dealers will all gladly stop their money making cartels. Well maybe it could work, but until we clean up the way we get drugs in to the U.S., where people don't kill each other over them. We may want to hold off on the final sale, What if we let everyone grow pot in their back yards. How long would it be before someone used the make my day law, when someone was getting a free sample in the middle of the night.
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