In 2019, in the US alone, the cannabis industry created some 72,000 jobs. It’s a booming and flourishing market that can’t employ poorly trained staff. With this in mind, two years ago Gerry Berkowitz created the “Cannabis Science and Business” program at the University of Connecticut. Last year, 400 students enrolled in the astounding program. This year, Berkowitz expects 1,200 students.
The course offered by the University of Connecticut lasts 2 years and is mainly taken online, a learning mode that has the merit of being anti-pandemic friendly.
Among the students are entrepreneurs who want to start their own business, farm owners who grow more or less legal weed, a good number of Budtenders who work in Canadian and American dispensaries and hope to move up the ranks, and a few first-year law or humanities flunkouts who are radically changing their career choice.
All students will have to take 4 common units, including one on the history of medical Cannabis and two dedicated to botanical sciences, and 8 options, ranging from international and federal law to applied horticulture, pharmacopoeia or genetic sciences.
Leah Sera, co-director of the program and holder of a doctorate in pharmacology, observes that more and more students are entering the world of the beautiful plant to provide alternative care for people with serious pathologies, many of them coming from countries where only therapeutic cannabis is permitted. Demand from American patients for weed-based pain management is also growing: “Even medical professionals are looking to learn more to answer the questions they’re being asked,” says the teacher in an interview with the Boston Globe in July.
In a selection of the best Green Schools, Connecticut University would rank as the right course for those wishing to fly to Ganja-buisness with a minimum of academic baggage in the hold.
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