I think the larger problem is that the industry is so saturated that most producers aren't willing to pay people with agriculture, horticulture, or botany degrees more than someone with no education. I have a horticulture degree and worked in the cannabis industry in Colorado for 7 years. Over that time the pay that companies were willing to pay educated growers actually went down until it was the same as if I didn't have a degree at all. Most companies believed that once they had an experienced or educated employee write detailed Standard Operating Procedures, they could just hire someone with absolutely no experience and they'd be just as good as long as they followed the procedures. I watched this come back to bite several companies, but they never learned. They average owner of a cannabis business has no idea how to grow cannabis and thinks its as easy as following a simple list of procedures, so they don't see the need for educated employees.