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Florida's medical marijuana industry is hiring, but stoners need not apply
The Orlando Sentinel ^ | August 18, 2018 | Kyle Arnold

Posted on 08/19/2018 1:55:48 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

The hunt is on for budtenders, cannabis cultivators, weed botanists and dozens of other new jobs that have sprouted with Florida’s nascent medical marijuana industry.

With dispensaries scouting locations across the state and 147,000 people signed up to use the now-legalized drug, the developing industry is quickly trying to recruit thousands of workers to develop, grow and sell medical cannabis.

Medical marijuana businesses say stoners need not apply. A passion for smoking weed is a liability, and a criminal record involving drugs will almost certainly disqualify most candidates.

“We get hundreds of applications for every job opening we have,” said Michelle Terrell, spokesman for Wakefield, Mass.-based Curaleaf, which opened a dispensary in south Orlando in early August. “And maybe only 10 percent of those are qualified and meet the legal requirements.”

Florida’s legal medical marijuana business is expected to generate about $456 million in sales in 2018, according to a study from Arcview Market Research and BDS Analytics. That meant roughly 2,800 jobs at the end of 2017. By 2022, Florida’s marijuana employment is expected to grow almost tenfold to about 25,000 jobs, the research group said.

Those estimates would put Florida’s marijuana employment behind only California and Colorado, states that have legalized full recreational marijuana use....

(Excerpt) Read more at orlandosentinel.com ...


TOPICS: Agriculture; Business/Economy; Government; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: cannabis; florida; legalization; marijuana; pot; potheads; wod
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It's quite a trend.
1 posted on 08/19/2018 1:55:48 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Funny and not surprised. Addicts worship the stuff.


2 posted on 08/19/2018 2:02:41 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

There is no legitimate medicinal value in grass. Zero.its just dope. It never cured a thing. And it is illegal as hell under federal law!!


3 posted on 08/19/2018 2:08:10 AM PDT by raiderboy (Trump has assured us that he will "shut down the government to get the WALL in September"r)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Not at their prices. $80/a quarter oz? No sale!


4 posted on 08/19/2018 2:08:59 AM PDT by W. (Hey, beer!)
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To: raiderboy

Fake news!

Cannabis is helping millions with chronic pain daily & nothing you ever say or do in your life will ever change that, raider. Just as nothing you will ever do or say will change the fact that using cannabis medicinally allowed me to get healthy again, free of crippling depression & anxiety.

It’s true that it’s still illegal under federal law but thankfully President Trump has given support to new laws supposedly under consideration that will correct error.


5 posted on 08/19/2018 2:13:39 AM PDT by TheStickman (#MAGA all day every day!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Priceless. Even the pot industry, pot users are not welcome.

This underscores the lack of safety and lack of acceptability of pot, which should be banned, per existing federal law. Time for the federal government to reign in the disasterous social experiment.

6 posted on 08/19/2018 2:24:45 AM PDT by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!y)
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To: raiderboy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M53XLBd54Y


7 posted on 08/19/2018 2:24:50 AM PDT by TheStickman (#MAGA all day every day!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

No, but they’re welcome as customers.

FL is full of drugs. This is a stupid idea. There will be theft. “Of course I’m not a stoner. Never smoked pot! That’s why I want to work in a marijuana facility!”


8 posted on 08/19/2018 2:25:50 AM PDT by proud American in Canada
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

No, but they’re welcome as customers.

FL is full of drugs. This is a stupid idea. There will be theft. “Of course I’m not a stoner. Never smoked pot! That’s why I want to work in a marijuana facility!”


9 posted on 08/19/2018 2:25:52 AM PDT by proud American in Canada
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To: Reno89519

I understand car accidents have risen dramatically in
CO. Not sure but I thought I read that somewhere.


10 posted on 08/19/2018 2:33:19 AM PDT by proud American in Canada
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
This drug scam was cooked up by the Trial lawyer industry .
Good olde Dem Car Chasers * Morgan and Morgan * financed this disaster in FL because they invested Millions in this Drug Industry .
These evil Dems trial lawyers twice financed a state ballot on this disaster.
So it figures Boehner is now a lobbyist for this Drug Scam .

Lets keep the sheep High as Kites!

Can some one tell me how the Lefties and Do Gooders can scream about SMOKING but love pushing pot smoking ?

Can Morgan and Morgan lefties explain their logic.

11 posted on 08/19/2018 2:53:18 AM PDT by ncalburt (Gop DC Globalists out themselves ever ti)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hense comes the Cannabinoid Hyperemesis Syndrome – which is marked by severe vomiting – tends to affect those who have consumed marijuana, especially highly potent strains - sometimes FOR LIFE.


12 posted on 08/19/2018 3:56:39 AM PDT by CptnObvious (Question her now.)
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To: CptnObvious

“The hyperemetic phase of CHS typically lasts for only 24–48 hours [6], but the risk for relapse is high if the patient returns to cannabis use.”

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3576702/


13 posted on 08/19/2018 4:04:21 AM PDT by Ken H (Best election ever!)
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To: raiderboy

Here is candidate Trump speaking favorably about medical marijuana and leaving legalization to the states =>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWIQhDbs1g8


14 posted on 08/19/2018 4:14:05 AM PDT by Ken H (Best election ever!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

https://youtu.be/1QhrOctvnaA


15 posted on 08/19/2018 4:18:59 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: proud American in Canada
From 2017.

Exclusive: Traffic fatalities linked to marijuana are up sharply in Colorado. Is legalization to blame?

Get a load of their answer.

16 posted on 08/19/2018 4:23:07 AM PDT by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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To: proud American in Canada
Also from 2017...

In Two Years, Drugged Driving Deaths Rose While Drunk Driving Deaths Fell

17 posted on 08/19/2018 4:26:24 AM PDT by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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To: ncalburt

“Can some one tell me how the Lefties and Do Gooders can scream about SMOKING but love pushing pot smoking ?”

Hypocrisy never bothered them.


18 posted on 08/19/2018 4:48:56 AM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: raiderboy

“And it is illegal as hell under federal law!!”

Federal drug laws are blatantly unconstitutional. The 10th amendment limits the Federal Government’s power to those things specified in the constitution. This is why there had to be an amendment for the Federal government to enact prohibition.


19 posted on 08/19/2018 5:05:22 AM PDT by Junk Silver ("It's a little hard to herd people onto trains when they're shooting at you." SirLurkedalot)
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To: MichaelCorleone
As long as the Left is making Millions.
We hear nothing but crickets from the Whine and Cry Left Wing Mob and there Pet Media.
The Dems are owned by the Trial Lawyer Leftist Cabal,and they have invested Billions in POT including Master Soros.
20 posted on 08/19/2018 5:11:39 AM PDT by ncalburt (Gop DC Globalists out themselves ever ti)
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