Soaring marijuana sales in New Mexico are creating new jobs and new college courses.
A record $47 million were sold in March alone and in just the first year alone, sales of recreational marijuana, which was legalized in April of last year topped $300 million going up virtually every month.
Through May of this year, more than $220 million in recreational and medical marijuana were sold.
That has created a demand for more workers.
The University of New Mexico and Green Leaf have teamed up to create online programs for people who want to learn about the cannabis business.
“Students can dive in right away to you know, the nitty-gritty of what they want to learn,” Laura Jimenez Marketing Manager for the University of New Mexico said.
Programs include the business of cannabis, cannabis compliance and risk management, cannabis healthcare and medicine, and cannabis agriculture and horticulture.
“Being someone who’s you know trimming and curing the plant to people who are extracting the THC and CBD and creating all the different products to the more mundane things that you don’t think about that are part of you know, being a marketing director,” Daniel Kalef Executive Vice-President of Green Leaf said.
Kalef said there are lots of regulations with marijuana – and these programs will help you understand that landscape.
“You know, in most businesses if you open and if you own a candy shop, you can go on Google and buy an ad word, you can put your money in the bank, you can do you can mark it you can do all kinds of things in cannabis, everything’s different,” said Kalef.
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