COLORADO OUTFIT OFFERS PROGRAM FOR CANNABIS SOMMELIERS

A marijuana aficionado in Colorado

has launched a program he hopes will make the title of cannabis interpener as familiar as wine sommelier, cheesemonger and chocolatier. Max Montrose, the 29-year-old president and co-founder of the Trichrome Institute in Denver, said he designed the niche curriculum, which teaches students how to become marijuana experts, after he became fed up with the inconsistent quality and improper naming rampant in the blossoming industry. Montrose defines interpening as the practice of assessing the quality and psychotropic effects of a cannabis flower using only sight and smell. In 2012, Colorado and Washington legalized recreational marijuana. Five other states plus Washington D.C. have since followed suit, and the Canadian government plans to legalize the drug by next summer.