Want to Work in the Cannabis Industry? Hear About it From Within the Industry- From Hiring Managers, Employees, and Business Owners in the Cannabis Industry

Veronica Castillo
15 min readAug 22, 2019
www.weednews.co

It’s raining cannabis jobs in the United States! Cannabis is here and here to stay! It is healing and empowering much of society and the economy.

Reports show that as of 2019, the legal cannabis industry has created about 200K jobs in the United States and in Canada, Indeed reports triple digit growth in job postings since 2017. These are full- time jobs being reported.

In 2017, job postings in the U.S cannabis industry rose by 445% and as of 2028, the cannabis industry is expected to be a $57B industry. Keep in mind that these numbers being reported in the U.S are not the Bureau of Labor Statistics numbers.

Did you know that because cannabis is illegal in the U.S (give me a break) at the federal level, no federal agencies include cannabis jobs in their figures? I suppose only calculation of bodies in jail related to cannabis is important (shrugs); I digress. Back to jobs in cannabis!

Big Think states that jobs of the future will come from marijuana. New Frontier Data found that the U.S legal cannabis market will create about 300K jobs by 2020. Forbes reported that jobs in the cannabis industry are projected…

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Veronica Castillo
Veronica Castillo

Written by Veronica Castillo

I’m Veronica "Vee", the Traveling Cannabis Writer. I serve the wellness & plant medicine industry w/ strategic communications and public relations services.

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