Organizers of the Soaring Eagle Arts, Beats and Eats festival in Royal Oak starting Aug. 22 highlighted some of the features of this year’s four-day festival over Labor Day weekend, including the return of the House of Dank cannabis sales and consumption area.
The festival promises to kick off a collaboration between House of Dank and Baker College in an educational certificate program at the college for employment in the legal marijuana industry.
House of Dank and Arts, Beats and Eats gained national news coverage last year during the cannabis company’s first year of marijuana sales and consumption at Arts, Beats and Eats.
“Nobody has done anything like this across the country,” said Mike DiLaura, chief corporate operations officer and general counsel for House of Dank, who said visitors to the secure cannabis area at the event this year will include some celebrities.
“We will work with Baker College on their new cannabis programs,” DiLaura said at a news conference in Royal Oak on Wednesday. “There are all sorts of jobs up and down this industry.”
Recreational and medical marijuana is a multi-billion dollar industry.
Kelley Suggs, public relations manager for Baker College, which has a campus on South Lafayette, said the college will offer three certificate programs in cannabis retail, cultivation and product development.
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