New Brunswick college to start Marijuana cultivation course
Michel Doucet, executive director of continuing education and customized learning said the French-language College Communautaire du Nouveau-Brunswick will launch the course sometime next year.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau campaigned last year on a promise to legalize recreational marijuana and the government has said it would introduce legislation by the spring of 2017.
Medical marijuana however is already legal across Canada, and companies have been eyeing the larger recreational market with expansion in mind.
The government of New Brunswick where the college has five campuses, in August, said it invested $4 million in a medical marijuana company that will create up to 208 jobs in the region.
Doucet said the school was still planning the exact details of the program which includes class size and the length and frequency at which the classes will be conducted.
“This is not a mainstream program,” he said. “We’re looking at training qualified employees to meet the needs of industry, versus training students at large.”
Colleges in Canada differ from universities as they grant mainly diplomas instead of degrees. However, Doucet said the school had not yet confirmed whether it would be a full diploma program or not.
(Reporting by Debarati Mukherjee)
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