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The Content Aggregator: Seed Talent and the Growth of an Educated Industry

August 25, 2022
Tom Hymes
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Founded in 2020, Illinois-based Seed Talent is a platform that aims to reimagine how the cannabis industry educates itself, but even that description fails to convey the scope of what the founders of this unique offering consider its far-reaching potential.…

The Invaluable Importance of Employee Communication and Education

Not only can communication in the workplace manage internal conflicts in a more advantageous manner, it also helps build better external relationships, increases employee engagement and often results in an increasingly skilled and productive staff. Educating your staff increases their…

‘Cannabis college’: Five universities to offer first ever online marijuana courses, seeing opportunity amid coronavirus

As federal lawmakers in Washington continue to slow-walk — or outright oppose — the legalisation of marijuana, the budding industry is plowing ahead making crucial inroads with another institution of prestige to help lend it legitimacy: higher education. Five universities —…

Protecting Health, Safety and Your Business’ Future is Priority One in the Cannabis Industry

April 6, 2020
Lezli Engelking
Coronavirus, News & Insights, Training & Education
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As the world adapts to this new reality, reassessing and updating business practices has become the new normal. In the pre-COVID-19 world, cannabis operators often reached out to FOCUS with an interest in improving a certain aspect of their internal…

LSSU Cannabis Center Of Excellence Sponsored By Agilent

August 22, 2019
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PRESS RELEASE Collaboration will facilitate education and research in cannabis chemistry and analysis SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. – Lake Superior State University and Agilent Technologies Inc. have formed a strategic relationship to facilitate education and research in cannabis chemistry and…

Majoring in marijuana: Michigan universities expand their degree programs

Marijuana is moving from the dorm room to the classroom at Michigan universities. Two universities in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula are the first in the state to add cannabis-focused degree programs to their offerings. In Marquette, Northern Michigan University -- which…

Students Across US Now Majoring In Marijuana At Colleges

Colleges are now adding cannabis to their curriculum. Grace DeNoya is used to getting snickers when people learn she’s majoring in marijuana. “My friends make good-natured jokes about getting a degree in weed,” said DeNoya, one of the first students in…

In Canada, you can study marijuana production for college credit

The country is facing a pot labor shortage, now that the sale and cultivation of cannabis is legal. Beleave Kannabis Corp. wants to grow more than just pot. The Ontario marijuana company aims to build an empire of plant scientists,…

Class in session for Canada’s first Commercial Cannabis Production program

PRESS RELEASE Niagara College celebrates the launch of pioneering graduate certificate program Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON, Sept. 05, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Niagara College welcomed its first class of future cannabis industry leaders and officially launched its one-of-a-kind Commercial Cannabis Production (Graduate…

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Cannabis Education and Training – Can Certification Help You?

It seems like you can take online courses and get certified in just about anything these days, and cannabis is no different. Over the past several years, more and more cannabis education and training companies and programs have popped up…

Maine Professor To Teach Course Focused On The More Serious Side Of Marijuana

Professor Ike Levine’s new class at the University of Southern Maine’s Lewiston-Auburn College this fall – “Marijuana – Hemp, Hype, Hope and High” – will be purely academic. Mostly. “It’s not going to be a primer for people on how…

5 Red Flags Your Client Is About To Become Your Debtor

April 9, 2018
Brett Gelfand and Cody Ziering
Banking, Finance & Real Estate, Best Practices, California, Colorado, Massachusetts, Nevada, Oregon, Training & Education
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We have all heard that in business that nothing is more important than customers. Many corporations today recruit and pay steep salaries for C-Level executives that include titles such as Chief Customer Relations Officer or Chief Happiness Officer. In the…

How Has Legalization Altered The Way Kids Learn About Marijuana?

WESTMINSTER, Calif. — After Yarly Raygoza attended the drug prevention program at the Boys & Girls Club here last year, she used what she learned to talk a few friends out of using marijuana. The 14-year-old took the class again…

The Pitfalls of Collecting On Sales with Salespeople

As a business owner, there are an endless number of tasks to complete and an unseen number of issues that arise without notice. Often times, the business operator wishes there were 30 hours in a day. Of course, as we…

Northern Michigan University Becomes First to Offer a Degree in Cannabis

Students at a Michigan university might have to do a double-take when they look over the school's degree options. After all, what college lets someone major in marijuana studies? But that's exactly what Northern Michigan University is offering as part of a…

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