Feds' crackdown is a bummer for Oakland marijuana university

Sacramento Bee ^ | 3/26/12 | Peter Hecht

[GSWarrior]

OAKLAND – For the school renowned as the Princeton of Pot and the Harvard of Hemp, the high times have wafted into a downer.

Enrollment has plummeted at Oaksterdam University, the Oakland college that since 2007 has attracted 15,000 students to study cannabis cultivation and related careers, while boosting commerce in one of America's most pot-friendly cities.

The pilgrimage for pot scholarship in Oakland is waning as California's four U.S. attorneys wage a crackdown on medical cannabis dispensaries. And yet, at Oaksterdam and elsewhere in the city, neither fewer students nor heightened federal scrutiny of the cannabis business seems to be killing Oakland's vibe for promoting the possibilities of pot.

Despite the closing of hundreds of dispensaries elsewhere in California, Oakland is doubling down. It is seeking to license four new marijuana stores and attract new local pot tax revenue on top of the $1.7 million it gets from its four current dispensaries

[GSWarrior]

Oaksterdam is derived from the word Amsterdam, BTW.

[SgtHooper]

Huh! Up in smoke, you might say!

[Aevery_Freeman]

One would find it ironic the Doper-In-Chief is cracking down on legal marijuana were it not for the fact that our and Mexico's politicians are owned by the drug cartels and the LEO associations.

Who are we to cast aspersions on Afghanistan.