Hands-On Training

This course provides instruction on the cannabis plant itself. The course discusses plant structure, reproduction, and genetics of cannabis. The course will go into further detail concerning the cannabis growth cycle, such as nutrient ratios, light cycles, types of fertilizers, and indoor vs. outdoor environments.
Following the lecture, participants will have the opportunity to work with hemp plants in a variety of hands-on activities. These activities will include: the process of making a clone from a larger plant, harvesting techniques for mature plants, bucking and trimming plants to prepare flower, and will learn and perform proper methods for cleaning and sanitizing equipment and facilities.

This course will explore basic categories of cannabis processing, various cannabis concentrate types, components of certificate of analysis pages and how to review them, and different equipment used in processing laboratories.
Following the lecture, participants will have the opportunity to observe hemp flowers under a microscope to examine their finer components, measure biomass on a scale, wash the biomass in a spinning washing machine similar to those in processing facilities, collect the bubble hash made form the washing/spin cycle and measure the final weight of the concentrated product created from the biomass. Participants will learn and perform the proper methods for cleaning and sanitizing equipment and facilities.

This course will explore various types of products in dispensaries, purchase limits for recreational customers and medical patients, roles of front-of-house staff (with focus on customer service and situations that require management), best practices for high-traffic situations, and coordination with back-of-house operations.
Following the lecture, participants will have the opportunity to review mock product descriptions and match each product type (flower, edibles, concentrates and topicals) to specific needs, practice difficult customer scenarios and how to navigate them, identify requirements in checking IDs when admitting consumers into a dispensary, and to review various terpenes, their effects, and their scents.

Participants will learn about regulatory compliance, quality control, managing inventory and best in-take practices, verifying product quantities, discussions concerning product reconciliation, reporting inventory discrepancies, and waste documentation.
Following the lecture, participants will practice taking full inventory of a mock dispensary set-up (as if performing an audit), locating product label discrepancies, and recording green waste logs.