Canadian college to offer marijuana cultivation classes

A college in the Canadian province of New Brunswick plans to launch a program on cannabis cultivation to prepare students to work at local marijuana companies.

The French-language College Communautaire du Nouveau-Brunswick is the latest North American higher education institution to offer cannabis business-related courses, a move intended to help prepare the future ranks of marijuana entrepreneurs and employees.

Medical marijuana is already legal at the federal level in Canada, and the government plans to introduce legislation next year to…