The program doesn’t just now focus on horticulture. It combines courses on chemistry, biology, marketing and monetary management.
In fact, students won’t even be growing marijuana, Canfield holds, though that is the first question everyone asks him.
There are a yoke specific tracks offered within the major. One has a bio-analytical focus. Those devotees could go on to graduate programs, says Canfield, and they will be numerically job candidates because they will have completed an independent learn about.
The other track is for aspiring entrepreneurs. For those students, it’s not clear what the coming might hold. To offer an example of what they could do, Canfield supports they might open a growing operation with a lab in-house.
“We organize a small sample set of students right now, so we’re not sure where the greater behoof is going to be,” he says, “but some students are very enthusiastic about the duty track.”
He came up with the idea for the program in 2016 after attending an American Chemistry Sodality meeting and hearing members of the cannabis chemistry subdivision speak.
“One of the reoccurring themes involved the lack of preparedness or the lack of competency in a lot of the existing analytical labs,” he describes. “The speakers were expressing a great need for increased skilled laboratory technicians, analysts and keeping.” As an analytical chemist himself, this need struck him as an opportunity.
The Detroit Open Press notes that, “while medical marijuana revenues in Michigan are considered at more than $700 million, if full legalization of marijuana happens … the gates could be enormous.”
“Legality is sort of sweeping the nation right now,” says Canfield.
“Conceive of about that types of regulations involved in our food,” he says. The sundry popular a product becomes, the more of a demand there is to regulate it. “That’s present to guarantee a perpetual need for this kind of analysis.”
So, considering the supervision the industry is headed, for the students, he says, “the prospects look pretty fit.”
This is an updated version of a previously published article.
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