School in Oakland training workers for the medical marijuana industry
An Oakland medical marijuana activist has started a school to train people to work in the medical marijuana industry. For $75, students at Oaksterdam University in downtown Oakland get lessons on everything from cannabis cultivation to the history of marijuana in the United States, including the status of current laws governing medicinal use.
The federal Drug Enforcement Administration's take: "There's nothing good that comes out of this. To put this on as some type of a university where people are learning something productive is, to me, just a farce."
Clarification: I'm not a cannabis user. But I strongly the support its medicinal use and I believe if tobacco and alcohol are legal substances it's a hypocrisy to criminalize the use of marijuana. For the latest in the discussion to reform drug laws in the United States, check out this entry at the North Coast Journal's blogthing.