Cannabis & Plant-Based Wellness Operations
Pursuing a career in Cannabis & Plant-Based Wellness Operations offers a unique opportunity to be at the forefront of a burgeoning industry that is revolutionizing healthcare and wellness.
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.
What does a career in cannabis & plant-based wellness operations look like?
A career in Cannabis & Plant-Based Wellness Operations 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.
Programs
Cannabis and Plant-Based Wellness Operations
Associate of Applied Science
The Cannabis and Plant-Based Wellness Operations 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.
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.
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.
