TEMPLE TERRACE, Fla. Its a Tuesday around 5:30 p.m. and Floridas self-proclaimed first professor of Cannabis, Carlos Hermida, is discussing the most prevalent cannabinoids found in marijuana. Thats soon followed by the difference between lab techniques: gas chromatography vs. high performance liquid chromatography. <\/p>\n
This lecture has gone to pot. They are discussing the intricacies of weed. <\/p>\n
Outsiders might consider it a stoners dream. But most of the 12 students crammed into this small classroom view it as a business opportunity. <\/p>\n
Welcome to Medical Marijuana Tampa or, as some are calling it, Cannabis U complete with its own slick slogan: \"Take Your Career To A Higher Level.\" <\/p>\n
Pepper plants are used as a cannabis-like substitute by the instructors at Medical Marijuana Tampa. <\/p>\n
In a nondescript building just outside Tampa, Jeremy Bufford, 33, is building an empire. <\/p>\n
Or so he hopes. <\/p>\n
He came up with the idea almost four years ago, he said, but didnt anticipate this quick of a rollout. Plans were sped up once organizers of the medical marijuana initiative in Florida got it on the November 2014 ballot instead of 2016. <\/p>\n
\"We want to approach cannabis from a historical, from a legal, from a botanical and from a pharmacological perspective.\" <\/p>\n
This Tampa-area location is Buffords first. He had planned to house the school in a former cigar factory but his landlord kicked him out when he discovered what the business was. Bufford scrambled for a new lease. <\/p>\n
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