Trade School Teaches Students To Grow Pot

[OhioChick]

Oaksterdam University Offers Weekend Course

POSTED: 3:21 pm EST February 25, 2008
UPDATED: 4:18 pm EST February 25, 2008

OAKLAND, Calif -- You know you're in a different kind of college when a teaching assistant sets five marijuana plants down in the middle of a lab and no one blinks a bloodshot eye.

Welcome to Oaksterdam University, a new trade school where higher education takes on a whole new meaning.

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.

So far, 60 students have completed the two-day weekend course, which is sold out through May. 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.

http://www.newsnet5.com/education/15404857/detail.html

[terip64]

1. K&R I just sent this to my 17 year old son who doesn't want to go to college.

He may want to go there. ;)

[bryant69]

2. Those wacky Californians

Growing medicine. Har har har. What will they think of next?

Bryant
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[OhioChick]

5. It Disturbs Me Greatly That

Medicinal Marijuana is illegal.

Big Pharma wouldn't like it legalized......they'd lose too much cash.....Can't have that. I've had many deceased family members that could've been helped (so they wouldn't have withered away) from medicinal marijuana.

[OneBlueSky]

3. the instructor should get a copy of "A Child's Garden of Grass" . . .

a record album from, I believe, the late 60s . . .

and yes, I do have a copy -- somewhere . . .

[quispquake]

4. I have that album!!!

I also have the book "A Child's Garden of Grass", which carries the warning "This is NOT a good book to hollow out and hide pot in".

[Sabriel]

6. I was thrilled to see this at my local PUBLIC library last week:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51RXXXJMRXL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU01_AA240_SH20_.jpg


Let's hear it for free and open access to knowledge of all kinds.

[knitter4democracy]

7. Darn. I had hoped he was teaching them to grow hemp.

Then how to rett, hatch, hackle, and sunbleach it to make linen. I'd take that class. ;)