Brief self-intro: I'm a student in NZ (New Zealand) wanting to convert my passion for MMJ into a career, I have a Bachelor of Biomedical Sciences: Specialising in Immunity and Infection, and am self-studying a bunch of online courses which will supposedly 'prepare me for the MMJ industry'. (not too sure how much I'll learn from these courses but better than nothing I suppose!) Anyways, I booked a flight to the U.S. departing mid-year in the hopes of finding some, if any, starting point to getting into the MMJ business. Is there any advice out there for an eager student, simply looking to gain experience and knowledge of the MMJ industry?
all i would say is learn EVERYTHING you possibly can..but check out Cannibis training university..(CTU)...they offer marijuana courses
Out in California, the chance of getting a budtender job is slim to none if youre not a hot girl. Owning a dispensary is different, but very costly upfront. Being an extractor or edible maker would be viable for a company, but starting your own could be very expensive
well, in Calif. you do not need a business degree to open a dispensary. You need money. And people that are knowlegable and you can trust. Perhaps you can use your talent to help out the medical science fields for MMJ. But recreational is taking over, and nobody is gonna give a fk about medical anymore. I suggest you advocate the rick simpson oil or tincture that stops epeiletic siezures. The America epilepsy society is going to the feds to get it legalized for kids with epilaepsy. They say its works better than anything big pharma came up with so far. Good luck.
I already have enrolled in their full course, and I'm hoping that some medicinal dispensary owners will recognise it once I've completed it
Well the government in New Zealand hasn't even legalised or decriminalized medicinal cannabis, which is why I want to get my foot into the medical industry first so I can hit the ground running with opening up a business once the laws are changed here. I'm planning on seeing if any dispensaries in the U.S. would be willing to train me (unpaid even), so I have the opportunity to show off my knowledge/skills first before they decide anything. As for capital for beginning a new business here in NZ, I'm planning to borrow from investors, friends, family, bank (if need be), to start a medical dispensary. Viable or not? I'd love to get your opinion And yes I am currently studying everything I can about medicinal cannabis including rick simpson oil
Do you recommend any websites or resources for job searching in those fields? I think I could handle jobs with more responsibility especially after I brush up on my health science + MMJ knowledge so being a budtender isn't my only option. However it all comes back to my original question, how on earth do I get my foot in the door in the first place
Do it bro! Follow your passion in life, like I am I was studying engineering, but I hated it so I quit uni and now I'm determined to make cannabis my career
medical shops will be sought out and still a market. it's just to bad the feds went after the nice shop owners about %40 the tweekers about %30 and the hash providers before wax was big. they went after innovations like the vending machine but also community spaces and smoke lounges in favor of more commercial in and out ,pay the police mans ball but no real community outreach. and made it hard from the beginning for ma and pa and non rich hippie types. so what you have now' even the new law in California is set up for wealthy upper middle class business people to run the market and advance a rung on the gentry ladder. so to the op enjoy and be Kind.
Starting a business of any kind is a expensive up front and often a big risk. Cannabis is just really competitive. Still that's no reason to not start.
do you have dual citizenship or here for student visa? 6month "work" visa? how long do you plan on preparing in the industry here for the laws at your home to change? what exactly do you expect to learn. you say you have a BA in biomedical sciences yet seem to be looking at dispensaries? sorry just confused. I'd think with that experience working in a a cannabis/biological testing lab would be more up your alley/possibly cross w/ MMJ.... like steep hill or any of the standards... then again i don't know what i'm talking about just my opinion
I'm personally in the same boat. I'm going to school for organic horticulture studies and living in maryland. If you know anything about the medical laws there is no way im going to get into the very slim industry here when it opens so im planning on transferring to Oregon and finish my degree up there and hopefully i will be able to make some friends there and work my way in. Currently im just doing everything i can to learn as much as possible about the plant. Been stressing out about how im going to actually get my foot into the door is a big deal.
I was meaning I'd take pretty much any job in the medicinal marijuana industry to get my foot in the door initially, and then hopefully work my way into the research/patient-treating scene, recommending doses and which strains are best etc. etc. I was planning on coming on the waive visa, allows me to stay for up to 3 months and I can receive unpaid training.
Good luck dude, I'm just planning on e-mailing pretty much every medicinal dispensary and seeing if they'll take me under their wing for training and if they think I'm an asset to the company I'll be asking if they can sponsor a work visa. Well that's my plan anyway, viable or not? I'm not sure but time will tell
Just thought of a potential problem for those of you from out of town. I used to bring visiters to doctors and dispensarys with no problem . That stoped a few years later when they tightened up.. they won't even let me in a dispensary with a passport and a recomendation. They need to see California id. Not Federal and not foreign. My friend from Germany has a California id . You can look into getting one. Or you can get in with someone behind the scenes who knows the industry but you need that resident id to work in a shop or most legal businesses.