Sunday, October 15, 2017

Maybe You Laugh on Hearing of a Marijuana Degree at Northern Michigan University

Obtaining a degree in Business has never had any value for me since there has never been any interest or aspiration to become a businessman.  A few of my sibs and sub-sibs have held that interest and it did well for them.  There's been about a 50/50 split between the Dads as to the practicality of a degree with some insisting it has to make money or what good is it.  The Rockhouse has no problem with that so long as it's not the only view of university when multiple other disciplines are not likely to ever pull the Big Bucks.  Those disciplines vary in need from novel to vital so we want to keep them around as well.


Zen Yogi:  so let's get to that Degree in Marijuana from Northern Michigan University.  It appears to amount to a Bachelor of Science degree but possibly more advanced degrees will be offered as the discipline evolves.

Here you go, bear buddy.



Medical marijuana samples in Detroit in 2015

Photo: Salwan Georges, Detroit Free Press


Zen Yogi:  that looks exactly the contents from your Rockhouse grinder!

It does, Yogi, but there's more to it than that.

Northern Michigan University is in a weed-legal state so there's no problem with the law and the businesses in that field make radical amounts of money.  Apart from the hooting about frivolous degrees, there appears to be ample reason to obtain such a degree when the study is much more than how to make pot pipes and bongs ... and, wow, that's such groovy enamel on your last one.


His four-year medicinal plant chemistry degree — geared toward the burgeoning marijuana business that is about to explode in Michigan next year — includes classes such as organic chemistry, biochemistry, soils, biology, gas and liquid chromatography, biostatistics, genetics, accounting, financial management and perspectives on society.

Other colleges and universities — such as Harvard, University of Denver, Vanderbilt University and Ohio State University — that  offer a variety of classes on marijuana policy and law.

Passing a course in Organic Chemistry is always a fret to incipient biologists and it's caused many to think the future must be in retail and then they drop out.  This is definitely not a 'soft' degree.

Detroit Free Press:  Marijuana degree combines science and business at Northern Michigan University


These jokers are not screwing around:


The medical marijuana industry is poised to explode with new state regulations and taxes on the dispensaries that will sell the weed

Kathleen Gray/Detroit Free Press


Zen Yogi:  but Jim Sessions wants to send the Blue Meanies to break your bongs, bust your bhang, and generally suck the joy joy feelings from our lives

He's another joker, mate, since his biggest dream is to Ban Halloween because it promotes Satanism.

Zen Yogi:  what chance does he have with anything that whacked?

Unknown, my furry buddy, but that's been a favorite theme in Alabama for years and probably because Alabama never changes its favorite themes as we see with Jim Sessions and there's another puddle of muddy delight in Roy Moore who has never in his crooked career changed his scheme for milking his charity for millions.  If you have trouble with your moral compass, synchronize with Roy Moore on the North Pole where it just spins in circles.

While that lot never prepares for anything, students in Northern Michigan University prepare for everything.  They know Sessions may lower the boom again to take us back to the 40s but they don't judge it a sufficient risk to abandon preparation for the Future.

Zen Yogi:  so now the biggest challenge is telling Conservative Dad you need a little jingle to help obtain a marijuana degree?

Aye, that looks to be it and imagine that joy joy conversation, Yogi.  Conservative Dad has no argument about it failing to make money since this business does pay the Big Bucks and it's only logical to get a piece of it, right, mates?


The banks are being stupid about it since they won't have anything to do with the financing small businesses usually need and on which the banks make zooks on the interest.  Presumably a great deal of the financing comes from venture capital since there's no way those vultures would miss an opportunity like this which grows so fast and has so much potential for more.


JoJo McFunkyfunk:  you have sailed right past the moral issue in this!

What moral issue is that, JoJo?  Many have lied about the properties of marijuana so that lie is a moral issue if you like.  The favorite is from the Reefer Madness times in the 40s when Harry Anslinger was saying marijuana makes black men crazy so they rape white women.  There's as much moral issue as you will need all day.

I can show you how much marijuana engenders violence with a look at my rifle cabinet ... but there's nothin' in it.

JoJo McFunkyFunk:  anecdotal evidence ... throw it out

Fair enough with anecdotal evidence, JoJo, but there's no widespread evidence of violence from any stoners.  You know that for yourself since you don't see stoners out there cracking heads when stoners will most likely be spacin' on the latest jams from some band you never heard and probably never will hear because jams like that just aren't accessible to the Mainstream.

Any idea of a moral view has no religious clarity since the people in the Bible enjoy their wine as will most priests and preachers today.  I've never been advised of any specific Biblical proscription against marijuana so there doesn't seem to be any moral issue on a religious basis.  The only significant driver behind this has been Harry Anslinger in the 40s and his thirst for tax dollars.

The students at Northern Michigan see a much more optimistic future than that so they naturally want to prepare for it.  They won't get condemnation for that from the Rockhouse since our inclination is to give them applause.


There are arguments marijuana should not be used so pervasively but that doesn't carry much weight when alcohol is abused massively to tragic consequence but little is done about it.

In the current post-Anslinger go 'round of trying to stomp marijuana out of existence, the campaign has continued for not so far off a century but it's never accomplished much beyond putting busloads of people in jail.  The interest in the marijuana was already there and stomping ideas has no chance at all.  If anything, the stomping increases their value.

A whole lot of things have come into the light with this Millennial time but it's rare for that to cause problems.  Accepting the fact is good when people recognize it's real as in everywhere, it's powerful in terms of bringing goodness, and it's profitable.  Really it's just another commodity on a global supply chain and there wouldn't be any problem with it if not for making it illegal.

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