A.D. In 2017, Yukon Vegetation Professor Gerald Berkovitz and a group of 40 students visited Kuralef, one of Connecticut’s four medical marijuana producers, and took a fun treat.
“I could never find the general manager of the company [job applicants] He knew all about cannabis gardening, ”said Berkovit. In fact, there are no programs or things in the country to solve this problem.
About two years later, Berkovit established Yukon’s first agricultural cannabis gardening course through the University’s School of Agriculture and Natural Resources. The course was immediately popular with the students, some of whom applied it to work experience and worked with cannabis companies.
As marijuana acceptance and legitimacy grow, it will require the training of professionals in the cannabis industry, including plant production, extraction and testing. Marijuana industry companies are hiring cannabis students at cannabis colleges in Densensen and Wilminnik, including Yukon and Quinbug Valley Community College, and both schools have expanded their course offerings, officials said.
The time will come when many states will legalize the drug for medical and recreational purposes, and Connecticut lawmakers with a successful medical marijuana program will evaluate the legality of the drug for all adults.
“Trying to develop [courses or programs] My main focus is to make the student industry ready, ”said Matthew Debacco, a Yukon professor of cannabis education at the school. I know we have a very good level of access to student work and experience.
The American cannabis industry is hiring. This year, Seattle’s cannabis data source and technology company, according to Lifley’s Annual Report, had 321,000 full-time cannabis operations in the United States. According to Lifley, this will create more than 77,000 jobs by 2020.
Sales are in legal marijuana states, and Lifley has been found. Cannabis retailers in Massachusetts By 2020, they had raised about $ 700 million, up 75% from last year’s $ 400 million.
Students taking the DeBacco “Introduction to Fruit and Vegetable Development” course will learn about the cannabis plant growth cycle, cannabinoid content optimization and post-harvest handling, among other aspects of enhancing the drug. Starting this summer, Debaco will also begin offering advanced courses focusing on applications directly in the cannabis industry, such as how to extract cannabinoids from cannabis plants and common challenges in commercial cannabis production.
According to Berkous, adding the advanced grade is a non-standard cannabis course to an official certification program or a minor. He thinks the university could easily establish a standard cannabis study program that covers a wide range of subjects in the industry, and such a program would be popular.
Yukon has so far only offered introductory courses and independent studies, and that section remains in high demand. Many students who have studied THC and CBD have experienced work related to breaking down and experimenting with cannabis levels in cannabis plants.
“Dozens [of students] They have practiced for the past two years, ”said Berkovitz, half of whom are dumped in Massachusetts in Connecticut. They are going to work, and they are going to work with a really good salary.
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Last summer, UConn graduate Laurent Sands trained in CBDb, Southbridge, Mass. The company hired at least one other person who took a Yukon course and wanted Sands to stay at the end of the winter.
“They wanted me to stay full-time.
Samuel Hayden, 30, of Portland, Maine, worked in the cannabis industry as a legal caretaker and consultant for cannabis companies before coming to Yukon to study under the bouquet. He said he already knew a lot of course content before taking the introductory course, but Haider said the stamp of approval from institutions such as Yukon was a major step forward in the cannabis industry.
“I think companies are really tired of interacting with people who haven’t been investigated,” Hayden said. My basic scientific knowledge of horticulture and plant physiology also prepares me better for farming.
Yucon is not the only Connecticut institution to offer cannabis education. Quinnbug Valley Community College began offering cannabis classes late last year, said Brian Kaufman, an English professor who oversees the program.
Quinnbug’s one-year 16-credit program covers gardening in addition to topics such as business principles and marijuana law.
“We’re joking that it’s an introductory program,” Kaffman said. We know there are people who are interested in cannabis – a new industry – and some future students have not found what they are looking for. ን We thought that coming to college might interest them.
At least one Connecticut cannabis company is interested in hiring from that program. Nick Barard Stein, part of the Green Valley Glass of the CBD and Cannabis Parts Store, said he is currently interviewing people who have completed the Quinebaug program for retail work at the company’s Colchester and Put Tumam stores.
“We like to recruit outside of that program,” says Stein. They are equipped with a basic knowledge of cannabis.