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People burning to work with marijuana are flocking to California and other states with an established pot culture to work as "budtenders" in smoke shops and cafés or as entrepreneurs in operations developing the latest cannabis products.
There is a "record exodus" of workers from corporate America to an "expanding, legal $5.4bn-and-growing weed country," reports California's East Bay Express.
The burgeoning interest in nabbing a job in the pot industry was apparent at a recent "Budtender Bash" in Oakland, where retail pot shop clerks — budtenders — who had finished shifts from nearby medical marijuana dispensaries, talked to prospective pot workers about how to find a job and what the work is like.
Budtending is a first rung on the industry ladder — similar to a fast-food cashier's job — yet it is attracting skilled and college-educated workers who want to get in on the ground floor...
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