If you're thinking of getting a head start in the burgeoning field of cultivating medical marijuana, look no further than Oaksterdam University in Oakland, CA:
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.
Of course, the best part about this particular article is the delightful pun included here:
At the end of the class, students are given a take-home test, with the highest scorer - make that "top scorer" - earning the title of class valedictorian.
HAR!
That kind of class would indeed be a fine addition to horticultural and agricultral educational establishments anywhere.
Another thing about the money side of it - because F1 hybrids are sterile, and breeding them remains (and always will do as with all such strain development for any plants) an art and science, legalisation wouldn't have any effect on the worth of the plants and seeds.
And of course, as medicine, they'd still be as easy to cultivate and therefore deliver for free.
A great follow-up class could be based around world travel to collect seeds from all the many wonderful areas of hash and ganj production.
It wasn't a great joke.
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