Medical Cannabis Caregivers Directory

MCC 122: How to Start a Medical Cannabis Collective, Cooperative or Delivery Service Collective (Please Note: Completion of MCC 121 is required before registering for MCC 122)

Registration Information

Fee:	$130
Upcoming Dates:	September 5, 26 October 3, 24
Time:	11 AM - 4 PM

Class Syllabus

Please Note: MCC 121 is a Prerequisite

Instructors: Liz McDuffie, Director, MCC Training Program
Strewart Richlin, Attorney

1. Location: Cultivation -- Processing and Storing -- a Collective
Storefront

2. Step by step procedures for establishing a Collective

3. Selecting the Nonprofit Legal Form for the Collective

4. The "Cooperative" and how it differs from other nonprofit legal forms

5. Licenses and Permits

6. Insurance

7. Record Keeping: Patient In-take software that eliminates all paper records, encrypts and stores Member records

8. Record Keeping: Point of Sale; Inventory labeling and control; Product Consignment

9. Start Up and Operating Budget/Estimated Annual Sales

10. Establishing a Delivery Service Collective

11. The Quasi Storefront Model: The Medical Cannabis Information and Resource Center

12. Review of a Business Proposal that can win a City Council’s approval for a Business License of operate a storefront for Collective members

13. City Zoning/Planning Department

14. Locating and Leasing a location for a Collective storefront

15. Operational Standards and Procedures for Collectives

16. Supply and Demand: Avoiding the Black Market

17. Cannabis Inventory: The Cultivating Member Agreement

18. Clean Green Certification: the optimum cultivating Member

19. How to increase the Collective's membership

20. Specialization and Collective Member Services

21. Positive and negative advertising

22. Important Security issues

Registration Information

Learn about our classroom and online training programs. All classes are single day programs.

View class calendars:
September October

MCC 121: Becoming a Department of Public Health Registered "Primary Caregiver" under California's Medical Marijuana Program

Single Day classes:
September 4, 25
October 2, 23
Details & Registration

MCC 122: How to Start a Medical Cannabis Collective, Cooperative or Delivery Service Collective

MCC 121 is a Prerequisite
Single Day classes:
September 5, 26
October 2, 24
Details & Registration

MCC 123: Producing Cannabis Infused Tinctures, Ointments and Edibles

Single Day classes:
September 19
October 17
Details & Registration

MCC 124: Physicians Orientation: Approving the Use of Cannabis under California’s Medical Marijuana Program

Single Day classes:
September 7, 28
October 5, 26
Details & Registration

MCC 126: Cultivation of Medicinal Cannabis: Organic, Indoor Hydroponic System

Single Day classes:
September 18
October 16
Details & Registration

MCC 127: Cultivating Exceptional Cannabis with DJ Short

Single Day classes:
October 9
Details & Registration

MCC 128: Medicinal Cannabis and the Health Care Facility

Single Day classes:
September 8, 29
October 6, 27
Details & Registration

Online Video: CLEAN GREEN
Pre-Certification Training for Medical Cannabis Growers
Details & Register here to view video at no charge

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