As more and more states relax medical marijuana laws, a budding industry is taking seed.
Across the country, educational institutions dedicated to teaching the ins and outs of - legal - cannabis cultivation are taking root, ABCNews.com reports.
At Detroit-based Med Grow Cannabis College, after a five-week semester studying pot cultivation and business basics, students graduate armed with the skills needed to grow and dispense marijuana to the ill. (Click Title To Read More)
"Students should feel very confident that they're going to succeed."
Tennant opened Med Grow's doors in September, just 10 months after Michigan voters said yes to the state's medical pot law.
The aspiring entrepreneur was eying opportunities in medical pot long before it became legal and was ready to hit the ground running.
"We knew the law was going to get passed," Tennant told ABCNews.com,
In addition to Michigan, 12 other states have okayed pot for medicinal use, ABCNews.com reports: Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington.
The school currently employs 12 people at its 4,800-square-foot facility, ABCNews.com reports, and has about 60 students enrolled during this class cycle.
And at least one other institution of higher learning is giving a kind reception to Med Grow.
"We welcome competition," Salwa Ibrahim of California's Oaksterdam University told ABCNews.com. "Ultimately, what we're trying to do is change laws locally and federally."
Oaksterdam, founded in 2007, is the nation's oldest such institution, and, with three campuses, 50 employees, and 5,500 alums, has earned the distinction of being the Harvard of cannabis colleges.
But lest would-be students get the wrong idea and think Med Grow is a party school, Tennant was emphatic to ABCNews.com that instructors stressed lessons were for medicinal purposes only.
"I run a very tight operation here," he said.
NY Daily News Staff
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