Here's How Legalization Affects The Job Market
Cannabis legalization is coming in Canada and with it is coming a new business sector. Economic growth, tax revenue and job creation are the exciting upside of this emerging industry. What does this mean for jobs?
Let's look at a U.S. example. Colorado is one of four states with recreational cannabis sales and made $996-million dollars in tax revenue in 2015. That's almost a billion dollars, people! Along with that came a budding job market and a decreased unemployment rate.
Types of Jobs
Like other businesses, the cannabis industry will have a need for traditional roles in areas like finance, marketing, human resources, operations and IT.
We will also see an emergence of jobs that are new or were previously underground.
We will see a lot of customer service jobs like budtenders and patient consultants. There will be jobs in cultivation like master growers, trimmers and irrigation specialists. There will...
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