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Register for Cannabis Workforce Classes
Turn your interest in cannabis into a career.
Minnesota Cannabis College offers immersive training programs, complete with hands-on labs, designed to prepare you for the industry's roles in retail and cultivation.
Four career tracks
Retail Track prepares you for roles in dispensaries and cannabis retail, with training in product knowledge, customer service, and state compliance. Cultivation Track prepares you for careers in cannabis cultivation, covering plant science, cultivation techniques, and commercial growing operations. Manufacturing Track will prepare students for careers in cannabis product manufacturing, with hands-on training in extraction, infusion, processing, and packaging. Certified Medical Cannabis Consultant (CMCC) training prepares you with the skills necessary for helping medical cannabis patients make informed choices.
What you'll get
Our training combines classroom instruction with practical, real-world learning. Every program includes hands-on lab work, site visits to operating cannabis businesses, and instruction grounded in Minnesota's current regulations and market conditions. You'll get a certificate with job-ready skills and a working understanding of how the industry actually operates.
No cost to eligible participants
Thanks to grant funding from state partners, our training programs are offered free of charge to eligible Minnesotans. We're a 501(c)(3) nonprofit committed to equity-driven workforce development, with a focus on communities historically affected by cannabis prohibition.
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Retail Workforce
Classes
5-week in-person & online virtual certification classes with hands-on labs are built for compliance and gets you ready to work in a dispensary.
Cultivation Staff
Classes
13-week in-person & online virtual certification classes with hands-on labs are built for success, getting you job ready to work in a grow facility.
Manufacturing Staff
Classes
9-week in-person & online virtual certification classes with hands-on labs are built for safety, makes you job-ready for roles in production.
Certified Medical
Consultant
3-day in-person & online virtual CMCC certification classes built for safeguarding patients and prepares you for the workforce.
Help grow the industry from the ground up.
Every sponsorship dollar goes to hands-on training, workforce scholarships, and free community classes. In return, your organization reaches the students, graduates, and employers shaping Minnesota's cannabis market.
Our programs are tuition-free to eligible students by design, because the people best positioned to lead this industry shouldn't be priced out of entering it.
Sponsorship
This industry belongs to Minnesotans.
MNCC trains the cultivators, retailers, and operators Minnesota's legal market runs on, and we do it with pathways built for the communities prohibition hit hardest.
Your sponsorship keeps that education accessible, funds real classroom hours and hands-on training, and puts your organization shoulder to shoulder with the people building what comes next in Minnesota cannabis. When our graduates walk into their first jobs in this industry, your support walks in with them.
2026 CanTrain Grant
We're honored to be recipients of the first round of the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development's CanTrain Grant.
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