Generally speaking, there are three types of individuals that earn a certification. The first are those who want to understand how to identify cannabis quality for their own personal and safe consumption. The second includes budtenders and other dispensary employees who wish to have a deep understanding of cannabis flower history, quality, effects, and other in-depth topics so that they are best able to educate their customers. The third type of Interpener includes those who aren’t working directly with customers but are still involved with flower touch-points such as cultivation, extraction, distribution, buying, and sourcing.
Trichome Institute is currently working with various partners, including Texas A&M and Abstrax, on research projects to create a publicly available cannabis grading platform called TAG, Trichome Assurance Grading. We hope to be hiring TAG Technicians soon, which will be the fourth type of Interpener!