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 ...
“I support using it for OUR ADVANTAGE!! Got it? We now OWN the federal government with Trump!”
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Trump is strengthening the 10th Amendment by supporting the states on this issue - which means that it weakens fedgov power and authority.
It also means that your New Deal Commerce Clause is being stuffed. I call that winning!
You think as the flies of a summer - not reckoning what the Rats will do with expanded federal power when they get the upper hand (and history shows us that they will have more turns).
This is a pro-Constitution site as stated by its owner; you ought to respect his wishes.
How is maintaining the cartels' monopoly on the marijuana market "for our advantage"?
Jack boot lickers gotta lick.
Putting the “duh” in Flori-duh.
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