History

Cannabis Career Institute is America’s FIRST and PREMIER cannabis business training center and created the methodology currently being employed by many other schools in the industry! Many CCI graduates are now Captains of the cannabis industry thanks to us!

Cannabis Career Institute was founded by Robert F. Calkin, a lifelong advocate of cannabis legalization and medical marijuana, in March 2009. He has been in the cannabis industry for over 30 years. He is a Delivery Service expert, marijuana business consultant and podcaster on the subject of creating marijuana businesses. He has helped create literally hundreds of marijuana businesses on his own and with the help of Cannabis Career Institute. He created his own Green Dot delivery service in Los Angeles in 1988. He was a chief organizer of attendees at one of the first Smoke-Ins on the Mall in Washington D.C. in 1976. As one of the original members of the American Hemp Council in 1988 with Chris Conrad and Jack Herer, he has always been at the forefront of cannabis advocacy. His band Rude Awakening has done numerous concerts benefitting the legalization of hemp and actively promote this message on their CDs and promotional materials. He was also asked to be a consultant on the TV show “WEEDS“.

Robert F. Calkin is the author of STARTING YOUR OWN MEDICAL MARIJUANA DELIVERY SERVICE:THE MOBILE CAREGIVER’S HANDBOOK. This book has sold thousands of copies and has been made into a DVD. The book is the curriculum for the Delivery 102 course taught at Oaksterdam University where Robert has been Professor of Delivery for many years.

Robert founded Cannabis Career Institute to provide a support system for people trying to start their own medical marijuana businesses, creating a curriculum focusing specifically on compliance and how to create and market brands. This has led to the successful launch of many student businesses. Join us and let us help you to do the same!