What It's All About

Cannabis Operations is designed to provide students with extensive knowledge of cannabis fundamentals, as well as its uses and effects. You'll gain an understanding of cannabis regulations and advanced dispensary retail while learning to lawfully instruct others about cannabis and related product use.

Plant-Based Wellness focuses on best practices for customer service, legally compliant communication, and historical elements of integrating plants into wellness. Additionally, you'll become confident in regulatory compliance and remaining compliant in retail and frontline settings.

This program is 100% online, which offers students the flexibility to learn at their own pace and schedule, allowing them to balance studies with work, personal commitments, and other responsibilities.

A career in Cannabis Operations & Plant-Based Wellness involves working in the rapidly growing cannabis industry, focusing on the cultivation, production, distribution, and sale of cannabis and plant-based wellness products. This industry encompasses both medical and recreational cannabis, as well as various wellness products derived from plants.

Professionals in this field may have roles such as cultivation manager, extraction technician, quality control specialist, dispensary manager, product development coordinator, or compliance officer. They work in compliance with legal and regulatory frameworks, ensuring product quality, safety, and adherence to industry standards. As the industry expands, there are opportunities for career growth, entrepreneurship, and specialization in specific areas such as product formulation, research and development, marketing, and retail operations.

Different types of green plants growing in student run green house

"Our cannabis program captures the one-of-a-kind opportunity that legal marijuana presents - and puts you squarely into understanding the jobs, technology, and legal issues. It is far from easy. It has the rigor and requires the discipline that our students have to succeed in the new broad marketplace."

Erik Hoyer

Associate Professor, Technology and Occupational Sciences

Programs

Cannabis Operations and Plant-Based Wellness

Associate of Applied Science

The Cannabis Operations and Plant-Based Wellness A.A.S. focuses on the development of frontline skills needed for careers in the quickly expanding cannabis and other plant-based wellness retail industries. Students develop the competencies needed to interact with and lawfully instruct others about cannabis and other plant-based wellness, including how plant-based products can impact systems in the human body. Regulatory components of cannabis and other plant-based wellness retail operations including processes for establishing compliance protocols as well as practices for remaining compliant are emphasized. Instruction incorporates traditional use of cannabis and other plants for wellness.

 

Program Outline

Cannabis Operations

Certificate 

The Cannabis Operations Certificate focuses on all frontline aspects and workforce needs of the rapidly expanding cannabis retail industry. Students gain an understanding of cannabis regulations and advanced dispensary retail while learning to interact with and lawfully instruct others about cannabis and related product use. Students also gain a strong foundational knowledge of the cannabis business environment and regulatory components of day-to-day operations including processes for establishing compliant protocols and practices for remaining compliant.

 

Program Outline

Plant-Based Wellness

Certificate 

The Plant-Based Wellness Certificate focuses on the development of skills needed for careers in the quickly growing plant-based wellness industry including retail and frontline services. Students develop the competencies needed to interact with and lawfully instruct others about plant-based wellness and how plants and plant-based products can impact systems in the human body. Historical elements of integrating plants into wellness, the foundational knowledge needed to pursue plant-based wellness careers, and regulatory compliance and established practices for remaining compliant are emphasized.

 

Program Outline

Contact Information

Sarah Lee, Assistant Professor
Email: salee@nmu.edu


Global Campus

Phone: (906) 227-1200
Email: online@nmu.edu