LEARN TO GROW POT - LEGALLY

Don Schultz knows he's started a controversial business.

It's Greenline Academy, a firm that helps patients and growers be
compliant in the medical marijuana industry.

"Of course, there are people who think what I'm doing is wrong and the
whole industry is wrong," said Schultz.

"But medical marijuana is also an exciting industry with opportunities
for patients to manage their pain and growers to provide compliant
marijuana to these patients."

Numerous times during the conversation, Schultz stresses
compliance.

That's because the federal government and Health Canada have a myriad
of laws, rules and regulations when it comes to medical marijuana.

Schultz advises patients and growers follow the rules so the industry
doesn't get a bad name.

The process is so complicated Greenline Academy's first information
seminar for potential patients and growers takes two days.

This Saturday and Sunday from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. potential
patients and growers can listen to doctors, lawyers and professional
growers outline the medical benefits of marijuana, the paperwork
needed, how to grow organic marijuana from seed to harvest and curing
to sale and the ethics of being in the business.

While most people know of marijuana as 'weed,' 'grass' or 'pot' that's
smoked recreationally for a giggly or mellow high, Schultz stresses
it's also a medicine.

"We don't recommend patients smoke it because that's bad for your
lungs," he said.

"But marijuana can provide instant pain relief when taken through a
vapourizer, in an edible format or as a topical ointment for patients
with a variety of medical conditions from cancer, multiple sclerosis
and Parkinson's disease to arthritis, Alzheimer's and end of life pain."

Schultz grew up in Kelowna and graduated from Kelowna Secondary School
in 1972 before moving to the U.S. to work as a pilot and a real estate
developer in Oregon.

When the real estate industry bottomed out he decided to get into the
burgeoning medical marijuana industry by taking the state-certified
course in Colorado.

"I always wanted to move back to Kelowna and this way I can do it with
a business that's a first to Canada and can help people," said Schultz.

The two-day medical marijuana seminar is Saturday and Sunday at the
Best Western Inn.

Register for $265 at GreenlineAcademy.com .