Delaware Gov. Matt Meyer toured a cannabis cultivation facility ahead of legal recreation-use marijuana sales launching this week.
Meyer used the visit to First State Compassion's cannabis cultivation facility in Milford to tout an educational piece to legalization. For the last six months First State Compassion has partnered with Delaware Tech to provide hands-on learning for students looking to get into the budding cannabis industry. Lisa Peel is the Vice President of Academic Affairs at Delaware Tech.
"Just like with any other program, when there's a need, we respond to it in the workforce by partnering with the employer, designing curriculum that fits the need, and then producing graduates." she said.
Delaware Tech student Katrina Brison is among those who took the school's Cannabis Industry course.
"We've learned everything from seed to sale, cultivation, extraction, the medical uses, so many different things" she told DPM.
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