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A new industry has taken root in Detroit with the opening of the city’s new ‘MedGrow Cannabis College’.<\/p>\n

Here students learn how to grow marijuana professionally, debating the ‘finer points of inhaling’ and which plants ‘give the biggest hit’.<\/p>\n

And no this isn’t some tiny research lab, it’s clear what this is about — making money and building an industry.<\/p>\n

Apparently Michigan issues 1,000 medical marijuana certificates each month, after becoming the 14th state to legalize medical marijuana.<\/p>\n

Guardian:<\/a> Among the first students paying $475 (£285) for six evening classes are people reliant on marijuana for pain relief and those who help them, including a clergyman who runs an Aids clinic.<\/p>\n

Then there are young men such as Ryan Hasbany, a 20-year-old business student. He’s still a year too young to get a grower’s licence but he wants to learn the trade. “My father is a family practice doctor and he is issuing medical marijuana cards so I know there are a lot of people getting them. It could turn into a very lucrative business. The street prices are ridiculously high,” he says of medical grade marijuana, which sells at $250 (£150) an ounce in Michigan. “There’s Harvard economists who say this is what we need to bring the economy back.”<\/p>\n

Bring on the deflation. Here are some excerpts from the college’s website<\/a>:<\/p>\n