First medicinal marijuana school opens in Nevada despite ban

Potentially, a lucrative industry for the state of Nevada, the first medical marijuana school has opened its doors, even though a ban is imposed on the schedule one drug. Business owners-to-be can attend Budtender School, at the Cannabis Career Institute.

The $249 one-day class aims to teach people how to bake marijuana into pastry items, along with how to grow it legally. Still, lawmakers are contemplating a bill which would give patients the right to the drug after more than a decade of Nevada voters having approved of its medical usage. One response has already been taken last Thursday when the Senate Judiciary Committee approved the bill but called for regulation on marijuana dispensaries.

Though it is a victory for Nevada, a bill for the use of recreational pot usage did not pass through an assembly committee on Friday. Head of the Cannabis Career Institute in Henderson, Nevada, Robert Calkin, said to the Las Vegas Sun, "It's coming. Nevada has always been cutting-edge socially and politically. It was ahead of other states on gambling and prostitution, and (marijuana) is a lot less problematic. Nevada appears to be on the cusp of approving it."

Calkin is well aware of the federal law which bans the distribution and cultivation of marijuana. State laws cannot keep the federal government from arresting pot dispensary owners and locking them up.