Medical marijuana may only be in its early stages in Miami, but one resident has already outlined a plan to give the city its first school for the growth and sale of our lady Jane.
The Miami New Times reports that Jeremy Bufford, the founder of Medical Marijuana Tampa, is planning to open the first ever school in South Florida to teach weed entrepreneurship.
Students will pay $499 for a month’s worth of classes, which will either take place four days a week or during the weekend for much longer hours.
After graduation, students of Medical Marijuana Miami will be given legal permission to grow weed for a maximum of five patients each.
They can grow extra weed but it’ll have to go elsewhere, most likely back to the school.
Bufford says that caregivers have the potential to earn as much as $100,000 but warns that this school will be just as taxing as any other serious entrepreneurship institution.
“We issue grades, we have homework, and you’ve gotta put some effort into this,” Bufford says, according to the Miami New Times. “It’s very different than putting a seed into the ground and watering it. This is medical marijuana, not something you would buy on the street.”
If Miami voters pass the medical marijuana measure on the ballot this November, patients, treatment centers and caregivers will be legally allowed to possess marijuana.
Bufford will make sure that his graduates are designated as caregivers, who currently supply marijuana for patients with especially debilitating conditions.
The 33-year-old has no medical background but promises that the education will be very scientific.
“There’s no substitute for book learning, and since they’re going to be selling some of their product back to us, we have a huge stake in our students’ ability to grow pot well,” Bufford says.
He also noted that his senior professor of cannabis was the valedictorian of Oaksterdam University, a school in Oakland, California, where people learn to grow and sell weed.
Bufford is looking for locations to set up his institution, and if November’s vote fails, he vows that online classes will begin next month.
