Looking for a profession that you would fall in love with may be tough, but options are often limitless. Who would have thought that a university would open up c course focused on cannabis horticulture? As per Independent, Oaksterdam University is the Harvard Business School or Marijuana.
As per the website, Oaksterdam is now rebounding after it was raid in 2012 by the federal government, which deems marijuana "a schedule one" on illegal drug. It falls on the same category as cocaine and heroin. Federal agents tore down the doors and carted an estimated 60,000 cannabis plants which left the school with terrified students and faculty.
The Oaksterdam founder Richard Lee, stated that the university was devastated by the raid, Lee was then dismissed as a "last ditch effort" by the federal government.
This being said, Robert Raich, who is a lawyer that argued legalization cases in the US Supreme court twice in the past, makes a lesson clearly expressed in "Cannabusiness 102", wherein he would warn students of the risk being involved in cultivating pot.
Mr Raich then stated:
"Until the federal government changes the Controlled Substances Act, I teach how to create defenses against possible hostile action."
Despite the risk, business at Oaksterdam is till on full bloom. The university now has 20 staff members and employed 150 instructors which included the biggest names in the cannabis culture.
The Oakland lecture hall has 50 students in which every seat is being paid. Debby Goldsberry, who founded the Berkeley Patients Group medical cannabis collective and Ed Rosenthal is often cited as the world's leading authority on marijuana cultivation are both part of the facilitators.
As the legislation movement flourished, Oaksterdam continually attracts students, who never smoked pot, and does not intend to.
A 56 year old retired biology teacher, Ms Kennedy is solely interested in the plants medical benefits stated:
"These are not crazy people. These are not potheads, when you come here, you see it: these are business people."
