Cannabis Training Institute (CTI)* has named
new members to its Advisory Board. The Advisory Board provides expert advice
and peer review of all CTI course content. Represented talents include academics specializing in accreditation,
cannabis subject matter experts, and cannabis entrepreneurs with business
expertise. The Board is tasked with creating a balanced mix of creditable
courses that address the global needs of students.

Advisory Board member Dr. Dominic Corva lauds CTI’s mission to provide
affordable, high quality cannabis education that will optimize policy
outcomes associated with current social advances towards a diplomatic
human-cannabis legal system. Additionally, Advisory Board member Steph
Sherer believes the social and fiscal values attributed to CTI are due to
Greta Carter, the organization’s Founder and Chairman of the Board. “Greta
has assembled an organization of integrity with ambitious goals designed to
benefit the public and industry professionals,” said Sherer.

Most recently, the former Mayor of Seattle, Mike McGinn has joined the
Advisory Board. He served as Mayor from 2010 until 2013 and is a Seattle
-based attorney, political and community activist, and former Sierra Club
state chairman in Washington. McGinn supports the legalization and taxation
of cannabis and recognizes that cannabis should be regulated and not treated
as a criminal activity.
“Seattle’s progressive policies on marijuana have been good for Seattle –
for reducing harm caused by criminalization of marijuana, providing safe
access to medical marijuana, and improving public safety,” said McGinn. “CTI
can help dispel many of the myths about marijuana, and help other
governments making the transition from prohibition to responsible
regulation.”

Jeff Tice, MAcc, CPA, is another new Advisory Board member. He is the
president and founder of Salubrious Wellness Clinic, Inc., a medical
marijuana dispensary and health and wellness center in Tempe, Az. Tice has
vast experience as a leader in educational accreditation, management and
finance along with developing programs to improve student services,
academics, and operations. He has established a myriad of learning platforms
at multiple universities and is renowned for creating cutting-edge student
finance and class scheduling models for post-secondary education. For many
years, Tice served as a Senior Vice President with Career Education
Corporation, and as a Vice President for the University of Phoenix. Tice
also specializes in regulatory affairs and compliance, business operations,
strategic planning, and board governance and development. “I look forward to
incorporating my experience in medical marijuana, and in education and
management practices to measure productivity and performance of CTI’s
operational goals. This will further assist the organization with maximizing
its business efficiency,” said Tice.

Existing Advisory Board members include:

Dominic Corva, Ph.D. is executive director for The Center for the Study of
Cannabis and Social Policy, based in Seattle. He is a renowned political
geographer and public policy scholar and was recently a visiting assistant
professor in U.S. drug policy at Sarah Lawrence College. Dr. Corva received
his bachelor’s degree in economics at the University of Houston. He earned
his master’s degree and Ph.D. in political geography at the University of
Washington. Dr. Corva is currently an affiliate researcher for the Humboldt
Institute for Interdisciplinary Marijuana Research at Humboldt State
University. His work is published in The International Journal of Drug
Policy, Political Geography, the Annals of the Association of American
Geographers, and ACME: A Journal of Radical Geography.

Rachel Kurtz, J.D. is an associate attorney at the Seattle office of Henry
G. Wykowski and Associates with a focus on cannabis business and nonprofits.
Kurtz is a longtime drug policy analyst through her work as the former
deputy director of both the King County Bar Association Drug Policy Project
and the Voluntary Committee of Lawyers. She received her bachelor’s degree
from The Evergreen State College and her law degree from the University of
Washington. She volunteers her time as President of the Board for the
People’s Harm Reduction Alliance and as chair of the Seattle Hempfest
speakers committee, and is on the NORML Legal Committee.

Michelle Sexton, B.S., N.D. is the Executive Medical Research Director at
the Center for the Study of Cannabis and Social Policy in Seattle. She is a
naturopathic doctor in private practice in San Diego with specialties in
women’s health and cannabinoid medicine. Dr. Sexton completed an individual
postdoctoral fellowship for the National Center for Complementary and
Alternative Medicine at the University of Washington. She studied the
pharmacology of the endogenous cannabinoid signaling system (ECS) and
completed a clinical study measuring immunomodulatory effects of cannabis in
patients with multiple sclerosis. As a certified herbalist since 1990, Dr.
Sexton practiced midwifery in Texas prior to earning her medical degree from
Bastyr University in Seattle. She is a current board member for the ASA
Foundation.

Steph Sherer is the executive director of Americans for Safe Access, the
nation’s largest and most effective organization representing medical
cannabis patients and leader in developing online tools and resources
including the Medical Cannabis Advocate’s Training Center. Sherer is a
nationally recognized activist in the global justice movement and has
received several community awards for her work, including the San Diego
Peacemaker of the Year Award in 2003. She is a guest lecturer at the
University of California, Berkeley, and at George Washington University in
the District of Columbia.

Earlier this year, CTI formally launched its online educational tracks for
Americans for Safe Access (ASA), the nation’s leading advocacy group for
people who use cannabis as medicine. The ASA-CTI Core Cannabis Training
curriculum is designed to help healthcare providers, dispensary workers,
cannabis patients and advocates, public officials, law enforcement, and
others expand their base of cannabis knowledge. Visit the website at
http://www.cannabistraininginstitute.com/cannabis-courses.

“CTI specializes in cannabis industry training and certifications in a
quickly changing business climate,” said Carter. “We are adding to our team
as we work towards providing accurate cannabis knowledge that comes from
professionals in the industry. CTI will help to expand knowledge responsibly
about cannabis use, cultivation, distribution, taxation and regulation.”
For more information, call 904.704.1047. Visit the website at
www.cannabistraininginstitute.com.

Contact:
Greta Carter
904.704.1047
greta@cannabistraininginstitute.com

*Cannabis Training Institute (CTI) provides a comprehensive education
curriculum for legal, accounting, medical, political, business and
operations professionals in the emerging cannabis industry. The company’s
online training utilizes world-class experts and is available without
geographical or political limitations. CTI develops advanced learning tools
to expand worldwide knowledge about cannabis and to develop best practices
for its use, cultivation, distribution, taxation and regulation.

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