There are 122,814 legal full-time cannabis jobs in America.

[OxQQme]

>"Behind every one of those jobs is a hard-working, taxpaying American. They’re the botanists at Medicine Man in Denver; the oil extraction technicians at Dama in Seattle; the budtenders at Farma in Portland; the mechanical engineers at Apeks Supercritical in Johnstown, Ohio; the scientists at Steep Hill Labs in Honolulu, Albuquerque, Seattle, and Portland. They’re lawyers at Harris Bricken, they’re software developers at MJ Freeway Business Solutions. They’re writers, editors, web developers, event planners, and customer support specialists here at Leafly.
They’re also farmers. With $1.27 billion in sales in 2016, Washington state’s cannabis crop now represents the second most valuable farmed commodity in that state, behind only apples—and ahead of milk, potatoes, and wheat."<

Much more:
https://www.leafly.com/news/politics/many-jobs-depend-legal-cannabis-math?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=B2C%20Weekend%20News%20-%20Jan%207%202017%20-%20Eng&utm_term=Master%20-%20Engaged%2C%20Active%2C%20Passive%2C%20or%20New

[NightWatcher]

1. I'm looking to get into distribution and delivery.

So hit me up on my pager if you need a dime bag.

I kid.

And it brings a shit ton of tax revenue to the states smart enough.

[HoneyBadger]

2. Biggest crop in California

Who needs vegetables

[OxQQme]

3. U.S. Legalization is Crashing Mexicos Cartel Market

>"For decades, if you came across a pinch of cannabis in the U.S., odds were good it came from Mexico. Moreover, it was probably smuggled across the border by someone affiliated with a massive and often violent criminal enterprise.
Now that’s changing.
Medical and recreational legalization in the United States has caused a market crash in Mexico. According to an article this week in the Los Angeles Times, prices in some areas have tumbled as much as 70 percent.
Growers in the state of Sinaloa, one of Mexico’s biggest production areas and home to the infamous Sinaloa Cartel, told reporter Deborah Bonello the amount they make on cannabis has fallen over the past four years from $100 per kilogram to $30.
That’s taken a toll on traffickers, too. Officials on both sides of the border say the drop in profits has curbed both production as well as the amount of cannabis smuggled into the U.S. by cartels."<

https://www.leafly.com/news/politics/cartels-profits-wilt-as-states-legalize-cannabis

[msongs]

5. legal grow your own is doing that job. legally purchased MJ will always be undercut by cartels nt

[PoliticAverse]

4. Sorry but most of those jobs aren't actually legal as pot is illegal at the Federal level. n/t