- Understand the essential roles and responsibilities of a retail worker
- Navigate products and make recommendations with confidence
- Communicate effects, dosing, and safer use
- Build skills employers expect on day one
Self-Paced
Business of Cannabis Cultivation
Plan for seasonal market fluctuations
Forecast yield and make financial plans to mitigate risks
Incorporate technologies and practices for efficiency
California Event Training
Ensure staff comply with state laws and regulations
Educate staff to recognize intoxication from drugs and alcohol
Keep event attendees safe
Cannabis 101
Recognize the culture, policy, and laws that shape the modern cannabis industry
Understand cannabis cultivars, products, effects, and dosing
Gain skills and knowledge to advocate for legislative change
Cannabis Breeding
Understand genetics, traits, and selection.
Apply breeding strategies with intention.
Design facilities and workflows for R&D.
Protect intellectual property
Manage a phenohunt
Create and manage a data strategy
Cannabis Business Management
- Gain basic business management skills with a nuanced understanding of the conflict between federal cannabis prohibition and state regulation
- Plan and manage a compliant cannabis business
- Lead teams with ethical, effective practices
- Available versions specific to state laws in New Jersey, Connecticut, and Minnesota
Cannabis Business Startup, Financing & Licensing Certification
Navigate the state and local licensing processes
Develop a compliant business plan
Mitigate legal risk, protect the business and founders, and understand available intellectual property
Create a funding strategy and identify and work with investors
Cannabis Education for Regulators
Build shared knowledge across agencies
Understand markets, risks, and compliance
Align rules with public health and equity
Use OU experts to accelerate rollout
Cannabis Laws & Regulations
Oaksterdam offers a wide range of legal classes that help you navigate federal prohibition and state regulation.
Choose your level:
- Worker: retail compliance essentials, ID checks, packaging, sales rules, safety.
- Manager/Entrepreneur: everything in Worker plus SOPs, recordkeeping, audits, incident response, training oversight.
Then pick your location from the menu. We add new locations regularly.
Commercial Horticulture Management
Lead teams and standardize production
Increase yield and efficiencies
Prevent and mitigate pests and disease
Improve quality and plan for labor shifts
Commercial Horticulture Worker
Act in confidence in a cannabis cultivation operation role
Quickly spot pests, pathogens, and nutrient issues
Support the operation’s consistency and compliance
Be the reliable teammate managers want
Economics of the Cannabis Industry
Create informed tax and pricing strategies
Recognize how regulations shape in-state supply and demand
Prepare for the future through a nuanced understanding of parallelly regulated and unregulated markets
Endocannabinology
Understand the role of the endocannabinoid system in the human body
Understand the effects, safety profiles, mechanisms of action, and best practices for using cannabis and cannabinoid medicines
Explore condition‑specific evidence
Integrate hemp, cannabis, and cannabinoid medicines safely into clinical practice
Extraction & Manufacturing Certification
Learn lab safety, controls, and workflows
Gain a thorough understanding of all commercial solvent‑based and solventless extraction methods
Develop an efficient and compliant manufacturing strategy
Hemp Consumer Safety
Understand the effects of hemp-sourced cannabinoids
Identify best practices for safe consumption
Titrate products for safe dosage
Identify clean and safe hemp cannabinoid products
Home Grow
- Design a home garden indoors, outdoors, or in a greenhouse
- Learn lighting, climate, nutrition, and irrigation basics
- Prevent or mitigate pests and pathogens
- Harvest, dry, and cure dispensary-quality cannabis • Safely extract cannabis at home to make concentrates, topicals, edibles, and tinctures
Horticulture Mastery Certification
Gain in-depth knowledge of cannabis plant physiology and cultivation practices
Implement effective integrative pest management strategies to protect crops
Optimize environment, nutrients, and irrigation
Increase yield and maximize efficiency
Design standard operating procedures that result in consistently high-quality crops
Retail Management Certification
• Gain basic business management skills with a nuanced understanding of the conflict between federal cannabis prohibition and state regulation
• Plan and manage a compliant cannabis business
• Lead teams with ethical, effective practices.
• Guide retail worker teams to effectively navigate product options and increase dispensary loyalty
Security for Dispensary Workers
• Learn security systems and store protocols.
• Prevent loss at the door and on the floor.
• Verify IDs and safely handle cash.
• Respond to incidents with calm and clarity.
The Hemp Industry
Learn what qualifies as hemp and how flower, fiber, and grain production differ.
Understand the federal rules that govern hemp.
Follow evolving state regulations to stay compliant.
Tribal Council and Cannabis Leadership Training
• Learn policy, licensing, and operations basics.
• Assess economic impact and job creation.
• Plan retail, cultivation, and extraction pathways.
• Align sovereignty, culture, and compliance.
When Things Go Wrong
Identify a pest infestation before it spreads
Recognize the signs of nutrient deficiencies
Correct deficiencies, infestations, and prevent the spread of plant diseases