Founded in 2007, Oaksterdam University is America’s first cannabis college! With 4 campuses nationwide (in Oakland; Los Angeles; North Bay, CA; and Michigan), Oaksterdam aims to end marijuana prohibition, offering quality training for those interested in working in the cannabis industry. Since 2007 the college has educated thousands of students in the new field, which has created thousands of jobs and generated millions of dollars in tax revenue.

Oaksterdam culls its faculty members from cannabis legalization proponents. For example, teaching horticulture is marijuana authority and best-selling author Ed Rosenthal, who helped shape medical marijuana state policy. After the passage of Prop 215, the City of Oakland deputized Rosenthal to provide patients with pharmaceutical-grade marijuana.

For more information, visit www.oaksterdam.com or call (510)251-1544.

State Senate candidate Adrian Galysh

Last month Adrian Galysh announced his candidacy for State Senate, District 20 (San Fernando Valley), in the November 2010 election.

The 35-year-old Libertarian candidate, Duquesne graduate, and Van Nuys resident claims he is not a politician, but a hardworking American with “no grand political aspirations.”

Galysh advocates strongly for the legalization of marijuana and ending the War on Drugs. Comparing current drug statutes to Prohibition-era laws, Galysh argues that legalizing drugs would take the “criminal profit out of the illicit drug trade,” and could potentially put drug dealers out of business and reduce prison overcrowding: “We need to jail violent criminals, not peaceful drug users.”

As things stand, Galysh complains, “18 year old kids are being given ten or twenty year minimum sentences, and sick and terminally ill people are being denied the marijuana that relieves their pain.”

Besides being a medical marijuana advocate and State Senate hopeful, Adrian Galysh is also a professional rock guitarist and music teacher.

To find out more, visit ElectAdrianGalysh.com.

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