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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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To: raiderboy

You can go with prohibition and I’ll go with freedom & President Trump.


41 posted on 08/19/2018 9:57:07 AM PDT by TheStickman (#MAGA all day every day!)
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To: TheStickman

Ill stick with the law of the land. Federal law totally preempts state law on narcotics— no question about it.


42 posted on 08/19/2018 10:11:25 AM PDT by raiderboy (Trump has assured us that he will "shut down the government" to get the WALL in "September")
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To: raiderboy

Enjoy! :)


43 posted on 08/19/2018 10:31:16 AM PDT by TheStickman (#MAGA all day every day!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

So was bell bottom pants the sane never went that way.


44 posted on 08/19/2018 10:32:27 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: raiderboy
I found a couple pages on the FDA Site.

https://www.fda.gov/newsevents/publichealthfocus/ucm421168.htm

https://www.fda.gov/newsevents/publichealthfocus/ucm421163.htm

45 posted on 08/19/2018 10:54:52 AM PDT by Dutch Boy
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To: Dutch Boy
Under the same rigor as the FDA that a pharmaceutical company is required to do? That is the standard for releasing a drug. If it’s not the standard for medical pot, then why?

FDA standards are arguably overly stringent; a number of well regarded pharmaceuticals that are legal in Europe have been rejected by the FDA, and it's often said that existing drugs like aspirin couldn't pass FDA screening today.

And if the pot stays within a single state, it's Constitutionally none of any federal agency's business anyway.

46 posted on 08/19/2018 11:31:18 AM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: Dutch Boy

No FDA approval for medicinal use. This means it has no medicinal use.


47 posted on 08/19/2018 11:32:48 AM PDT by raiderboy (Trump has assured us that he will "shut down the government" to get the WALL in "September")
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To: raiderboy; Ken H
legalization but that WILL NEVER happen. No politician wants to stand for dope!!

President Trump campaigned on states' rights for marijauna, and as President has stated his support for Sen. Gardners bill deferring to state marijuana policies.

48 posted on 08/19/2018 11:35:05 AM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: raiderboy
No FDA approval for medicinal use. This means it has no medicinal use.

What a bootlicking attitude toward big government. I think you're looking for the Democratic Underground site.

49 posted on 08/19/2018 11:37:28 AM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: raiderboy
Federal law on within-state marijuana matters is not authorized by the Constitution — no question about it.
50 posted on 08/19/2018 11:38:45 AM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Just another example of the advantage of being clean and sober in a world of stoners.


51 posted on 08/19/2018 11:45:29 AM PDT by clearcarbon
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To: NobleFree

That ,my friend , is a false illusion created by failure to enforce those laws which jeff sessions is so want to do. It is a simple matter of a change of enforcement policy which, I pray for every day. Be very careful before you invest in weed.


52 posted on 08/19/2018 11:52:29 AM PDT by raiderboy (Trump has assured us that he will "shut down the government" to get the WALL in "September")
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To: proud American in Canada

We better take those cars off Colorado people’s hands...bad cars....If there is no drinking and driving why are there parking lots at bars?


53 posted on 08/19/2018 11:57:26 AM PDT by halfright (Deplorable in Florida...You can give peace a chance.... I'll cover you.)
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To: raiderboy

“Federal law totally preempts state law on narcotics— no question about it.”

Guess what? States, exercising their rightful power under the 10th Amendment, have told your fedboys to eff off.

You know what else? Fedgov has not squat for 20+ years and will not do squat in the future.

Now what are you going to do about?


54 posted on 08/19/2018 11:58:13 AM PDT by Ken H (Best election ever!)
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To: Ken H

States tried that with Blacks. How did that turn out for you? Then they tried it with perverted marriages. Guess what? You folks really don’t have a clue about federal preemption. It amazes me.


55 posted on 08/19/2018 12:06:51 PM PDT by raiderboy (Trump has assured us that he will "shut down the government" to get the WALL in "September")
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To: raiderboy

FYI, fedgov unconstitutionally imposed perverted marriage on the states. The perversion of our culture could not happen without an all poweful fedgov driving it in the area of education and other social policies it has no business in.

So why do you support the New Deal Commerce Clause, which has been behind so much of our destruction?


56 posted on 08/19/2018 12:38:35 PM PDT by Ken H (Best election ever!)
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To: raiderboy
Federal law on within-state marijuana matters is not authorized by the Constitution — no question about it.

That ,my friend , is a false illusion created by failure to enforce those laws

No, it's a fact established by Article I Section 8 - The Congress shall have Power To regulate Commerce among the several States - and the Tenth Amendment - The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

57 posted on 08/19/2018 2:14:32 PM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: raiderboy

Thanks for letting me know you know nothing of the subject matter other than an opinion, I don’t know much more than you other than what I witness.


58 posted on 08/19/2018 4:20:45 PM PDT by heshtesh
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To: raiderboy
Seizures are NOT controlled with pot.

Your own FDA cite (post #28) says they have approved a cannabinoid for treatment of seizures.

59 posted on 08/19/2018 5:27:05 PM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: Ken H

I support using it for OUR ADVANTAGE!! Got it? We now OWN the federal government with Trump!


60 posted on 08/19/2018 7:24:09 PM PDT by raiderboy (Trump has assured us that he will "shut down the government" to get the WALL in "September")
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