As Attitudes Shift and the Economy Slips, Interest in Starting Medical Marijuana Businesses Explodes

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(Free-Press-Release.com) March 16, 2010 --

San Francisco, CA, March 16, 2010 – Positive attitudes toward medical marijuana and bleak employment numbers have more and more individuals wanting to start medical marijuana businesses. People are looking for medical marijuana business education, now they have access to immediate training. Hempgard University offers online e-courses in medical marijuana business training, addressing the needs of this emerging field. With simplicity and power, their online e-course adds a new dimension to medical marijuana business training, through affordable, accessible education, enriching the learning experience for students.

"We are absolutely in an important new era in which increasing majorities of Americans are not just questioning the wisdom and efficacy of marijuana prohibition but are demanding alternatives," says Stephen Gutwillig, California director for the Drug Policy Alliance, which favors legalizing marijuana.

A Gallup Poll last October found 44% favor making marijuana legal, an eight-point jump since the question was asked in 2005. An ABC News-Washington Post poll in January found 81% favor making marijuana legal for medical use.

Hempgard University's online e-course solution enables individuals to learn the medical marijuana business regardless of their geographical location or personal time constraints. The schools virtual
e-course solution enables students to quickly and easily learn how to start and operate the following types of medical marijuana businesses:

-Medical Marijuana Dispensary
-Medical Marijuana Delivery Service
-Medical Marijuana Edibles Business
-Medical Marijuana Commercial Grow

“We wanted to make medical marijuana business training easier to obtain,” said Liz Cortese, Student Services, Hempgard University. “Many people want to learn how to start a medical marijuana business, but don't want to wait a month or more to attend a seminar, or they can't afford to travel to the city where the seminar is being offered. We make getting the medical marijuana business training easy, the e-course is available, immediately, on their computer.”

For more information visit http://www.HempgardUniversity.com

About Hempgard University

Hempgard University provides the most advanced business training for the medical cannabis industry, to students nationwide, through the online e-course and live seminars. Hempgard University has an active alumni network, providing it's students support. Since being founded, hundreds of students have taken their advanced, in-depth course and gone on to successfully enter the emerging medical cannabis industry.

Contact:

Bev Wilson

415.933.3570
bevwilson@hempgarduniversity.com

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