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(Archive February 2019) Meeting the Needs of a Growing Industry

By editorialteam on April 3, 2025

By Sofia Schlegelmilch | Assistant Editor

A cannabis, or marijuana, plant.
Photo by Betsabee Torres

As the legal marijuana industry in Massachusetts expands, students can now prepare themselves for careers in cannabis with online cannabis education training courses.

MWCC has partnered with the Online Cannabis Education program to offer students the opportunity to train for positions in the cannabis industry.

According to Rachel Frick Cardelle, Vice President of Lifelong Learning and Workforce Development, the school’s attention was first drawn to marijuana industry education when a member of Online Cannabis Education’s staff contacted MWCC about a partnership. Frick Cardelle said that by that time, the college had already been approached by several employers from newly-opened cannabis facilities in Fitchburg who were looking for trained employees. read more

(Archive December 2017) MWCC Student Quits Smoking Pot Before Class

By editorialteam on January 28, 2025

By Brianna Stevens | Assistant Editor

Image by Christopher Thomas

 A student at MWCC smoked marijuana before class regularly, but realized that his grades were suffering. The student said, “It almost took over my life.” He said he would smoke before every class at one point. “All of them, didn’t matter. The classes I didn’t care about, didn’t need, I tried to keep it that way but eventually it just became so routine.” 

The student told about his journey from his first four year school, and explained the reason he started smoking before class was because he was depressed. He said, “I did suffer from depression when I was younger, and then I noticed when I started smoking pot when I was like 18 years old that it started to go away, and then when I was at school and realized that I was more depressed, I started smoking more.” He said that smoking would reduce depression and subside anxiety before classes, so to achieve the state of mind he needed in order to go to class, he would smoke before.  read more