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@oaksterdamuniversity Executive Chancellor 🌱🎓
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What if education could change the future of hemp?
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On the latest Gaia Gossip, Mary Jane Oatman sits down with Dale Sky Jones, President & CEO of Oaksterdam University, to talk hemp, education, policy reform, and challenging generations of stigma and misinformation.
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They also explore what Tribal communities can teach us about making decisions that impact serve generations to come.
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Watch High Impact in Higher Education now on Youtube.
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🚨 Tomorrow's webinar: Schedule III is coming.

In partnership with Oaksterdam University, this #MJUOnPoint webinar will examine the regulatory, operational, and policy implications industry leaders should be preparing for now.

Save your seat:
🔗https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0RwXC585RrS6UP6SwvN1iw#/registration

Special thanks to our speakers:
(M) @daleskyjones , Executive Director, @oaksterdamuniversity
Mitch Meyers, Partner, BeLeaf Medical
Hirsh Jain, Founder, @anandastrategy
Bob P., CEO, Agri-Genesis

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Who do you want to serve?
Education helps us explore those answers.
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Who are you? Where do you want to be? What do you love?
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On the latest Gaia Gossip, Dale Sky Jones of Oaksterdam University shares how education can help people discover opportunities they didn’t know existed and find their place in the hemp industry.
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Join host Mary Jane Oatman and Dale for the dirt from Mother Earth.
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Watch the premiere on YouTube September 10 at 11 AM MT.

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“The flap of a butterflies wing can change the weather hundreds of miles away” -Gloria Steinem ✊🏼🏆😇💚
RIP @gloriasteinem thank you for your service
#mymuse #thehouseofgreen #sparktheconversation

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Business Lab is back!

Starting September 11, our monthly Business Lab is back and in a whole new format. We are gonna break down the current hot topics in the industry, get short, targeted presentations from expert guests, and, of course, provide our students and alumni with a space to get questions answered, brainstorm ideas, share, or otherwise avoid paying costly consultants.

Business Lab is open to all Oaksterdam students and alumni and can be accessed through your student portal (for current students) or by emailing support@oaksterdamuniversity.com (for alumni).

Here’s what’s in the lineup:

*September 11: Marketing Effects-Based Products with Angela Bacca*

In this month’s Business Lab, we are going to be discussing the marketing of effects-based products with Oaksterdam’s Director of Academics, Angela Bacca.

*October 9: The Hemp Ban: Possibilities, Impacts, and Preparation with Meital Manzuri*

*November 13: Midterm 2026 Debrief with Hirsh Jain*

Not yet a student or alum? We recommend starting with our All Access Pass so you can gain access to this Lab, 80+ video and interactive courses, resources, video libraries, and exclusive mini courses.

Comment OaksterdamPass and we weill DM you the link!

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Tune in Sep 10, 11am MT to hear the full conversation between Dale Sky Jones and Mary Jane Oatman. #gaiagossip #hermanyvoices

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What a wonderful evening celebrating the Cannabis Trail historical designations for BPG & now for CBCB!

A heartfelt thank you to everyone who joined us for this special ceremony. We’re incredibly grateful to Visit Berkeley, Brian Applegarth, founder of the Cannabis Trail, for his unwavering support and for presenting us with our Cannabis Trail signs, the representatives from Councilmember Terry Taplin’s office, Aundre Speciale, her crew, and the Chapel of the Flowers crew for graciously hosting this memorable event. It was especially meaningful to share the day with longtime friends and pioneers, including CBCB founder, Freedom Fighter Jim, Jeff, Dale Jones, and so many employees, activists, advocates, patients, and supporters who have dedicated themselves to the fight for cannabis freedom. A huge thank you to the entire Berkeley Patients Group team whose hard work over the decades made this recognition possible. This honor belongs to every patient who has walked through our doors over the past 27 years. Your stories, courage, and trust are the reason we’ve never stopped fighting. Special thanks to @laranjava for making it and for being our amazing counsel over the decades, we wouldn’t be here without you. Onwards and upwards.

As we celebrate our history, we’re even more excited about our future. We’ll soon be welcoming everyone to our new home at 2551 San Pablo Avenue in Berkeley.

The journey continues. Stay tuned… 💚

#CannabisTrail #BerkeleyPatientsGroup #BPG #Berkeley #CannabisHistory

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Today, when most people hear the terms “budtender” and “dispensary," they know they refer to a retail store and the people who work in them. What you might not know is where the terms came from and why we use them....

Although the school was formally established in 2007, Oaksterdam’s founders opened some of the world’s first cannabis retail storefronts in the mid 1990s in downtown Oakland—before California legalized medical use in 1996.

Jeff Jones launched the Oakland C Buyers’ Cooperative (OCBC) in 1995 as a bike-delivery service and converted it into a storefront on July 4, 1996. In November, California voters passed Proposition 215, legalizing medical marijuana and igniting the national movement towards law reform. At OCBC, Jeff and his team considered themselves “therapeutic counselors” because, when they provided patients with C, they found they also needed to provide extensive guidance.

“We would completely unveil what c@nn@b!s could be for patients — edibles, pills, flowers, vaporizing. We guided them to the solution that fit their needs.”

Photo: Oaksterdam founders Richard Lee, @daleskyjones and @jeffj420

Jeff says the terms “budtender” and “dispensary” originated in conversations with Oaksterdam University’s other co-founder, Richard Lee, about how distribution was evolving in the semi-legal California market.

“Richard really liked the idea of making [dispensaries] like a bar and calling it a ‘bud bar, Jeff recalls. “I always described it more like a dispensary—a medical office where patients received medicine based on their doctor’s recommendation.”

Both Jeff and Richard’s terminology stuck, and today the budtender fills the same critical void for consumers by helping them navigate products sold in dispensaries.

Budtenders are the most influential people in the industry because they interact with consumers every day. Because of their outsized role in the supply chain, it is vital that budtenders know how to provide real, meaningful product guidance without making things up or becoming a liability by dispensing unqualified medical advice.

Oaksterdam University trained the world’s first budtenders, and we continue to train the world’s best.

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As a 2nd generation @oaksterdamuniversity student, it was a pleasure to finally meet some of the distinguished faculty at the 2026 @calcannaawards. #budtender #budtenders

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Dale Sky Jones, @daleskyjones, Executive Chancellor of @oaksterdamuniversity eloquently spoke about the meaning of the evening, as the @oakland.ballers took to the Raimondi Park Oakland field as the Oaksterdam Blazers .. She said, “NOBODY SHOULD BE IN PRISON FOR A PLANT!!” .. It was a night to celebrate the 🌿 plant, celebrate Cannabis Education, along with the Bay Area Activist Cannabis Community, who showed up in big numbers.. 🙌🏼 .. Thank you Dale, @daleskyjones, for your decades of work helping people … ⚾💨☮️✌️

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@oaksterdamuniversity @oakland.ballers ⚾ collaboration came to life at the Ramandi ballpark, Oakland, with a packed crowd enjoying the Oaksterdam Blazers in a big win... Many Bay Area Cannabis Luminaries in attendance.... ⚾🌱 ✌🏼

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