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Greenline Academy wants to be Canada's top institute of 'higher' learning, a place students can earn what amounts to a master's degree in medical marijuana.
The school is designed to help students navigate the legal medical marijuana industry. It offers seminars, courses and consulting services to budding pot entrepreneurs covering everything from growing techniques to legal requirements.
"Greenline is about networking and education and compliance. We are trying to educate people about the laws," said Kelowna-based founder Don Schultz. "The goal is just to get the education out there to help patients."
He's running his next $330 seminar in Vancouver at UBC June 9 and 10. Among the topics: cannabis therapeutics, legal aspects of medical marijuana and tips from a "master grower" on flowering and harvesting the plant.
Schultz said the seminar is almost sold out. But don't expect to light one up during class.
"They are there to learn. It's not a pot party, it's to do with education," Schultz said.
Greenline has held previous sessions in Vancouver, Victoria, Kelowna, Winnipeg and Edmonton. More than 1,300 people have attended the sessions, the founder said. Another seminar is set for Calgary in July.
The mission of the academy is to "provide students and business professionals with the knowledge to build, protect and bring a patient, caregiver and grower into this new industry with full compliance of the laws and Health Canada's Regulations."
Schultz, a former pilot, property developer and realtor, got into the medical marijuana industry in 2010, following his interest in naturopathics. He went to work for a legal grower in Colorado, then attended the state's Greenway University where he earned an 'MBA' as a medical marijuana business administrator, and became a state-certified cultivator of medical marijuana.
He brought the idea back to Canada and founded Greenline in April 2011. He plans to establish a bricks and mortar school in Kelowna this fall.
The hardest thing about his business is trying to convince people he deals strictly in legal education.
"I just deal in paper. I don't deal in narcotics," Schultz said.
The website, Greenlineacademy.com also offers patients referrals to medical marijuana dispensing doctors and growers, and offers growers connections to patients.
It also offers educational services to medical practitioners, lawyers, accountants, contractors and inspectors on aspects of the legal medical marijuana industry, and help with navigating the law, paperwork and application and approval process.
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Source: ottawacitizen.com
Author: Elaine O'Connor
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The school is designed to help students navigate the legal medical marijuana industry. It offers seminars, courses and consulting services to budding pot entrepreneurs covering everything from growing techniques to legal requirements.
"Greenline is about networking and education and compliance. We are trying to educate people about the laws," said Kelowna-based founder Don Schultz. "The goal is just to get the education out there to help patients."
He's running his next $330 seminar in Vancouver at UBC June 9 and 10. Among the topics: cannabis therapeutics, legal aspects of medical marijuana and tips from a "master grower" on flowering and harvesting the plant.
Schultz said the seminar is almost sold out. But don't expect to light one up during class.
"They are there to learn. It's not a pot party, it's to do with education," Schultz said.
Greenline has held previous sessions in Vancouver, Victoria, Kelowna, Winnipeg and Edmonton. More than 1,300 people have attended the sessions, the founder said. Another seminar is set for Calgary in July.
The mission of the academy is to "provide students and business professionals with the knowledge to build, protect and bring a patient, caregiver and grower into this new industry with full compliance of the laws and Health Canada's Regulations."
Schultz, a former pilot, property developer and realtor, got into the medical marijuana industry in 2010, following his interest in naturopathics. He went to work for a legal grower in Colorado, then attended the state's Greenway University where he earned an 'MBA' as a medical marijuana business administrator, and became a state-certified cultivator of medical marijuana.
He brought the idea back to Canada and founded Greenline in April 2011. He plans to establish a bricks and mortar school in Kelowna this fall.
The hardest thing about his business is trying to convince people he deals strictly in legal education.
"I just deal in paper. I don't deal in narcotics," Schultz said.
The website, Greenlineacademy.com also offers patients referrals to medical marijuana dispensing doctors and growers, and offers growers connections to patients.
It also offers educational services to medical practitioners, lawyers, accountants, contractors and inspectors on aspects of the legal medical marijuana industry, and help with navigating the law, paperwork and application and approval process.
News Hawk- TruthSeekr420 420 MAGAZINE
Source: ottawacitizen.com
Author: Elaine O'Connor
Contact: Contact Us - Ottawa Citizen
Website: Pot professor to offer 'higher' learning in Vancouver
