On 1/18/2015, I attended the Cannabis Career Institute all day training.  Here are some of my notes that you may find helpful.
 
Regards,
 
Jason Sturtsman 
 
Cannabis Career Institute Training
cannabiscareerinstitute.com 
 
Includes manual with sections Basic Compliance, Legal Section, Cultivation, Bud Tending & Dispensary Management, Cooking, and Accounting and Merchant Services.  
 
March 7th and 8th - next CCI Training 
 
You can return for free once you have paid for one class.
 
Bob Calkin
818-515-7600
President: Cannajobs.com 
bob@cannajobs.com 
 
Owns a delivery service in California called Green Dot.
 
Suggested people join WECAN and NV NORML and become an activitist.
 
Suggests reading Jack Herer book the Emperor Wears No Clothes - which is a classic MJ read that I read in college.  
 
Richard Lee - talks about Oaksterdam University being the first cannabis college and attending this university and wrote a book called start your own delivery service.
 
Talks about importance of creating a cannabis network of individuals that can be of assistance to you.  
 
Positions in the MJ Industry: 
 
Dispensary Manager 
-One of the highest paid positions along with a master grower.  
 
Recommendations for a Cannabis Business
- Get your medical marijuana card.  Create non-profit and then a for profit corporation that interacts with the non profit along with corporation.  Would suggest a accountant and attorney to create a sophisticated structure to protect your business from IRS and other entities.  
 
Suggests a collective / patient agreement included in book. This is something that applies to California and not Nevada.  This something that will not stand up in court in Nevada from past cases.  
 
Create a patient database located in the cloud.  
 
Hal Lewis
Las Vegas Cannabis Info Center
-Says plans on doing these trainings every 7 weeks
 
Jessica Parks 
-talks about  her son who benefits from cannabis in Oregon
 
Vegas Cannabis Magazine
-Bill Shehan - talks about benefits of marketing 
 
Bruce Perlowin - Medical Marijuana Inc
-owns Hemp Inc.
-get in media for free and it is the best marketing tool
- MJ is growth industry for next 10 years
-Hemp Nation Magazine - hempnationmagazine.com 
-Talks about creating MJ business that  connect into the industry
-Says always put cannabis leaf on product and it will sell more
-Go to Cannabis Cups / Hemp Cons
-Talks about networking at cannabis based events
-Hemp plastics as the future
http://hempinc.com/octoberissue/html5/index.html?page=1
 
 
Derek Baker - Your Canna Connection
-Wholesale cannabis product company
-Yourcannaconnection.com 
- Talks the benefits of having packaging that a child can not see what is inside package.
-Make sure you are constantly staying up to date on regulations and have a good attorney
-Create a solid team
-Can get any packaging requested
 
History of Cannabis - Jessica
-Indica, Sativa, Ruderalis
-Hemp foods will not show up in a drug test
hempradio.com
kentuckyweedradio.com
weedtv.com
 
T's Edibles
-Southern Nevada Health District -Get certified food handler card and food handler safety training card
 
Cannabis Cooking
-Don't grind your cannabis when infusing 
-Slow cookers are a great way to infuse your cannabis
-Water added to mix keeps temperature stable and takes out green taste
-Decarboxylate - the process of infusing into oil, THCA into THC
-Create products of different strengths and the strain that you use will determine the profile of the edible created
-When submitting for cannacup make sure their is clear labeling on product, nutritional facts, taste good, and all cannabis listed in product.
-Winning a cannabis cup will help brand tremendously
-cannabischeri.com   
 
Cultivation - Home focused 
Ken Hoffman
-Goes over electrical safety, odor reduction, and no light leaks
-Know your neighbors and you assure your safety
-Recommends putting your mylar up so it is not flat and it moves around so their is no hot spots.
-Talks about different methods of growing, lights, etc...
-70-79F, 45-60% humidity preferred  
805-231-1687 Phone Number
 
JP - Science Consultant
-delta9science@gmail.com
-80-100 Canabinoids in Cannabis
-CBGA turns into CBG when heated
-CBDA becomes CBD when heated
-CBGA - reduce pain and inflammation
-CBG - anti bacterial
-THCA - non psychoactive
-THCA - reduce inflammation and muscle spasms
-THC - acts on cb1 and cb2 receptors
-CBD and CBDA are not psychoactive
-THC when extracted into a topical oil interacts with the CBD1 and 2 receptors in the skin in addition to the CBD extracted into the oil
-CBCA and CBC are non psychoactive
-CBC my enhance psycho-activity of THC
-CBCA is antibacterial and anti fungal
-CBN is psychoactive and aids in sleep and pain, indication of extreme heat or lengths of time of product if cannabis is old
-High CBN product can assist with sleep in patients
-THCV and THCVA - THCV can promote weight loss, THCV is mild psycho active, THCV reduces seizures and convulsions 
-Medicinal properties of terpenes - A-Pinene, Linalool, Beta Caryophyllene, Myrcene, Limonene (Each of these has a nose  / smell profile)
-CBD is the most medicinal of cannabanoids 
-Growth medium many activate / increase certain cannabanoids 
-LD50 unknown lethality 
 
Julie Monteiro - Nurse
-make sure you are not serving diabetic patients medicines (edibles) with sugar in them
-medicalcannalyst@gmail.com 
 
Bruce Gale 
-SB374 2013 
-NRS453A
-280E Tax Law
-Division of Public & Behavioral Health 
-NV State Assembly & State Senate
-66 Dispensaries Allowed Entire State
-Population in each jurisdiction was the determination of how many dispensaries each got
-Henderson is going to have special use permit hearings in February
-Transferability of the certificate hopefully is coming via the legislature 
-Medical Marijuana Support license - if you are a MJ related business you need to apply for this type of license in Clark County 
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