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The newly opened Med Grow Cannabis College in Detroit is the first of its kind in Michigan following the state’s legalisation of marijuana for medicinal purposes. The suburban college will offer courses in how to grow, use and profit from medical marijuana.

Med Grow’s founder, 24-year-old Nick Tennant, said: “This state needs jobs, and we think medical marijuana can stimulate the state economy with hundreds of jobs and millions of dollars.”

Tennant’s students will be taught recipes for cannabis butter, cannabis chocolate icing, and “greenies” (brownies with a special ingredient) as well as how to properly grow the plant and avoid potential legal pitfalls.

The 2008 Michigan Medical Marijuana Act has made growing marijuana for medicinal purposes legal within the state boundaries. Patients can buy the drug if doctors certify that they need it for a health problem.

Doctors in America’s medical marijuana states have prescribed the drug for a wide variety of illnesses including Alzheimer’s, diabetes, glaucoma, multiple sclerosis, Tourette’s syndrome and also to alleviate the side-effects of chemotherapy.

Marijuana remains illegal under federal law but, since the Obama administration instructed federal prosecutors to igorne patients using marijuana for medical reasons and the dispensaries that supply them, there appears to be a growing trend in the USA towards acceptance of cannabis as a legitimate medicine.