By Alyse Pfeil, The Kansas City Star on July 31, 2023

Metropolitan Communication College launched three new online classes this week to help jump-start careers in Missouri’s burgeoning marijuana industry.

MCC is partnering with California-based company Green Flower to offer the three certificate programs that focus on different aspects of the industry: cannabis cultivation specialist, cannabis retail specialist and cannabis extraction & product development specialist.

According to Daniel Kalef, Green Flower’s executive vice president, the cultivation specialist program is geared toward those who want to work in a grow operation. It covers, for example, the genetics and botany of the cannabis plant, as well as seeds, germination, soil, watering, lighting, trimming and harvesting.

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