TUCSON, Ariz., Dec. 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — The College of Arizona workplace of Continuing and Professional Education will be part of with the hashish schooling firm Inexperienced Flower to supply three new noncredit Cannabis Certificate Programs to assist tackle workforce wants within the rising hashish trade.
The certificates applications are: the Enterprise of Hashish, Hashish Legislation and Coverage, and Hashish Healthcare and Drugs.
Every certificates contains three eight-week on-line programs, which individuals can full in roughly six months.
Inexperienced Flower, a pacesetter in hashish schooling, works with a variety of faculties and universities throughout the U.S., together with the College of New Mexico, Syracuse College and College of California, Riverside.
“We’re delighted to companion with Inexperienced Flower to assist learners acquire expertise essential to be knowledgeable within the burgeoning hashish trade,” stated Craig Wilson, College of Arizona vice provost for on-line, distance and persevering with schooling. “Understanding a number of viewpoints like enterprise, legislation and coverage, and well being care and drugs because it pertains to the hashish trade will assist our learners set up a strong basis.”
Greater than a decade in the past, voters accepted Proposition 203, which created Arizona’s medical marijuana program. In 2020, voters handed Proposition 207, which legalized leisure hashish consumption for adults 21 and over. A sturdy hashish trade has emerged within the state, which has already generated over $150 million in tax income this 12 months.
Together with this development has come an elevated demand for people skilled in varied points of the hashish trade, starting from retail to legislation to medical science. The brand new certificates applications will tackle this workforce want.
“Inexperienced Flower is honored to be working with the College of Arizona and specifically the workplace of Persevering with and Skilled Schooling,” stated Max Simon, CEO of Inexperienced Flower. “With new guidelines and licenses starting to take impact, we applaud the management of the college for his or her foresight in wanting to supply certificates applications designed to arrange folks for careers in what’s now the quickest rising job market within the nation.”
In accordance with the 2021 Leafly Jobs Report, the authorized hashish trade already helps over 321,000 jobs nationwide. Employment within the trade has grown 27.5% per 12 months since 2017, considerably quicker than many different jobs. Arizona is projected to surpass $1 billion in total annual cannabis sales this 12 months.
“The altering legal guidelines have created an amazing want for credible hashish schooling, not only for producers and distributors, but in addition for well being professionals, authorized professionals, legislation enforcement and lots of others,” stated Rebecca Cook dinner, director of UArizona Persevering with and Skilled Schooling, which affords non-credit skilled growth applications that assist grownup staff acquire the information and expertise they should obtain profession success.
The certificates applications’ programs might be taught by Inexperienced Flower instructors, who’re subject material specialists within the hashish trade and embrace hashish entrepreneurs, board-certified physicians, attorneys and public coverage specialists.
Cook dinner stated the instructors’ depth of experience is among the causes UArizona Persevering with and Skilled Schooling selected to collaborate with Inexperienced Flower.
“Our purpose is to supply high-quality, related skilled growth alternatives that place our learners for skilled success, and Inexperienced Flower’s complete hashish schooling program meets that commonplace,” she stated.
The versatile, absolutely on-line Hashish Certificates Applications are designed with busy grownup learners in thoughts. The programs are delivered on-line in an asynchronous format, so individuals do not should be on-line at a selected time to finish their work.
Registration is now open for the applications, and the primary cohort begins March 7. The price for every certificates is $2,950. A $500 registration low cost is accessible for the primary cohort.
Media contact:
Bailey Wilson
Persevering with and Skilled Schooling
520-626-5091
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