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How Reymon Brown Makes New Dispensary Customers Comfortable
Reymon Brown has always loved cannabis and wanted to parlay it into a career, especially as he saw his home state of Massachusetts legalize adult use. He decided to pursue a budtending job to get a crash course in the business as he explores the possibility of getting into the ownership side through a social equity program.
As a budtender, he strives to develop relationships with customers …
Sustainability for Home Growers
Is cannabis cultivation sustainable? Like all other types of agriculture, it can be. It also can be incredibly destructive in its cultivation practices and in the sourcing of inputs.
The cannabis movement is not just about the freedom to grow cannabis for personal consumption. It is about freedom in many forms. People fought for cannabis decriminalization, the process that made home cultivation legal, to free themselves from the oppression of the War on Drugs and, along the way, created underground economies that were networks of family-based cottage industries of craft cannabis cultivation.
Many of these cannabis pioneers were growers who cared deeply about the preservation of the land and waterways around their gardens …
Dr. Mechoulam: The Shoulders We Stand On
Oaksterdam University joins the cannabis community in mourning the passing of a pioneer.
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Announcing CaNORML Dale Gieringer Scholarships
To mark the cannabis holiday 4/20, Oaksterdam University is partnering with California NORML to award four scholarships in honor of the organization’s Director, Dale Gieringer. The scholarships will provide the opportunity to enroll in one of two self-paced online courses offered by Oaksterdam University: Home Grow or Budtending Certification.
Learn how to apply …
In the News: OU & CT Equity Program
In a recent article by Jordan Nathaniel Fenster in the CT Insider, Dale Sky Jones, the executive chancellor of Oaksterdam University, discussed the school’s involvement in Connecticut’s small business accelerator program for social equity license holders in the cannabis industry.
Jones explained the origins of the school’s name, which was inspired by the founders’ observations of the successful cannabis industry in Amsterdam and Oakland’s status as the first U.S. city to allow medical cannabis sales.
How To Setup a Home Cannabis Grow
Home Grow Setup If you’re a cannabis enthusiast, it’s only a matter of time before you start wondering if you can grow the plant yourself. Luckily, anyone can learn to do it, whether you’re an amateur botanist who wants to try something new or a cannabis professional...
Oaksterdam x Homegrown = Free Cannabis Seeds for Students
Oaksterdam University is partnering with Homegrown Cannabis Co. to offer free seeds with enrollment in select Oaksterdam courses. Through this collaboration, students will receive free seeds to grow In real time as they correspond with the class.
Oaksterdam is the world’s first cannabis college, and Homegrown Cannabis Co. is one of the world’s fastest-growing seed banks. Oaksterdam is a legacy educational institution that offers the premiere cannabis curricula.
This partnership brings the two worlds together to help students grow.
Oaksterdam Interview: Tamika McPhail Helps Build Connecticut Cannabis Equity with reSET
For over 20 years, Tamika McPhail has been a leader in advocacy and cannabis. As the Connecticut State Director for Minorities For Medical Marijuana and a graduate of the Black Cannabis Business Mastermind, she most recently added Program Manager for the Connecticut Social Equity Cannabis Business Accelerator, powered by Oaksterdam University, to her resumé.
Tamika’s goals are to help social equity licensees successfully open the doors to their cannabis businesses and be a resource to the Connecticut cannabis community. ..
The Evolution of Cannabis Consulting with Goose Duarte
Goose Duarte has worked at the forefront of the legal cannabis industry since its emergence in the San Francisco Bay Area in the early 2000s. He has helped define the role of a budtender in the world’s pioneering dispensaries. Today he is the director of operations at Oaksterdam University.
Goose worked in almost every position at Harborside Health Center in Oakland, from inventory, stocking, product displays, check-in and registration, budtender, and management.
Here, he shares Harborside’s six-step consultation and sale process …
David
OU helped me to reach a new level of self confidence, Which is necessary for being a cannabis-advocate. Going through the process of alumniation showed me how much I wanna connect with people who love Weed as I do, and are willing to go all in for it. I'm living with...