Pot class: B.C. university to offer course on growing and selling cannabis

[Figster]

A 14-week online course offered by a B.C. university will teach students how to produce and distribute marijuana legally under new Canadian rules. (CBC)

If you were ever thinking about growing and selling marijuana, Kwantlen Polytechnic University in British Columbia may have the course for you.

This fall, the university will offer a course called Introduction to Professional Management of Marijuana for Medical Purposes in Canada, believed to be the first of its kind, which will teach students how to operate a marijuana business under new government regulations.

The 14-week online course will be taught by Tegan Adams, who works as a business development manager at Experchem Laboratories Inc. The company does cannabis testing and helps producers with their submissions to Health Canada.

"You have a lot of people that are really good at growing marijuana who are used to black market and a lot of people that are investing in the marijuana industry are coming from different industries and there is a gap in the middle where Health Canada is regulating their production and neither of those two groups knows how to deal with it," Adams told Rick Cluff on CBC Radio's The Early Edition.

According to Adams, this creates an opportunity for management professionals to break into the industry and act as a liaison between all the parties involved.

The course will be split into four modules — plant production, legalities and regulations, marketing and sales and medical conditions and drug development. 

Currently there are only 25 federally licensed growing facilities in Canada. Thirteen of those are in Ontario and six are in B.C.

Adams said people need to be concerned with the rules if they want to grow legally and that is what the course will focus on.

"If you want to do that illegally, I'm sure there are many ways to look into that, but if you want to comply with federal guidelines and be part of a growing industry, that's more the audience we are looking at," Adams said.

Should we have one of these courses at the Abide University?

[BikerDude]

Depending on where you live I'd be careful with this stuff.
Around here they have busted people who simply posted grow pics online.
I know the class is supposedly for legal growing but I'd bet that 90% of the participants aren't growing legally. The cops are really using anything like these classes to get busts.
And I've noticed a trend around here where the cops just happen to stop a guy for a broken tail light and eureka it turns out he's on the way back from harvesting his plants and has 80 pounds of freshly cut weed in the back of his pickup. That has happened enough times to make it clear that the cops are probably intercepting cellphone traffic. Which they say that even small town departments routinely do.
They can just get a relatively inexpensive little "Stingray" device and listen to everybody in town.
Which they are doing for sure around here.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/23/cops-phone-tracking_n_5016862.html

The take away is be careful what activities you get involved in even if they seem private and acceptable.
It's weird how "tin foil hat" reality is beginning to really be.