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 ...
Funny and not surprised. Addicts worship the stuff.
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!!
Not at their prices. $80/a quarter oz? No sale!
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.
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.
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!”
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!”
I understand car accidents have risen dramatically in
CO. Not sure but I thought I read that somewhere.
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.
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.
“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/
Here is candidate Trump speaking favorably about medical marijuana and leaving legalization to the states =>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWIQhDbs1g8
Get a load of their answer.
“Can some one tell me how the Lefties and Do Gooders can scream about SMOKING but love pushing pot smoking ?”
Hypocrisy never bothered them.
“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.
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