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Adelanto needs all the jobs it can get. Its unemployment rate soared to 22 percent during the recession, and it's still 9.7 percent, compared with a statewide rate of 5.8 percent.
Freddy Sayegh, a Los Angeles lawyer who represents three cultivation projects, estimates the new industry will generate 3,000 jobs for the town. His three facilities might account for 500, he said, with workers tending and trimming the plants and providing security, sales and research.
The newly formed Adelanto Growers Association plans to hold job fairs and offer training. That was good news to Arvin Bowens, 46, a recent transplant to the town and a medical marijuana patient.
"They need jobs here bad," Bowens said.
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