While street marijuana may be illegal, there’s nothing illegal about a Cape Breton school that teaches students how to grow marijuana using hydroponic technology.

George Young runs the Sea of Green Grow School and will be holding workshops in Sydney this week and Halifax later this month.

“It’s not something that a beginner person can just set up and be successful at,” Young told the Rick Howe Show Wednesday. “You do need a little bit of training, a little bit of knowledge to pull it off.”

Also known as Boston George in his Sydney community, Young has a license to grow 1,000 marijuana plants and distribute them to others who have a doctor’s prescription for medical marijuana.

The $250 classes are touted as being highly technical and not simply for pot growers, but anyone interested in growing crops with water instead of soil.

“A lot of the stuff I’m going to be teaching is cutting-edge technology,” he said, pointing to magnetic-induction lighting, tissue culturing and protoplast fusion.

Cape Breton Regional Police told News 95.7 they are assuming anyone attending the workshop to obtain marijuana will be doing so for medical purposes.

Young said he welcomes cooperation with law enforcement.