- The total number of job postings for the cannabis industry increased 445% in 2017, according to job-search website ZipRecruiter.
- There are now more people working in the legal cannabis industry than there are dental hygienists in the US.
- The legal cannabis industry could be a $21 billion industry by 2021.
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The US cannabis industry is growing insanely fast — there are now more legal cannabis workers than dental hygienists
The total number of job postings for the cannabis industry increased by 445% in 2017, according to ZipRecruiter.
The legal cannabis industry is posting some eye-popping job-growth numbers.
The total number of job postings for the cannabis industry increased by
Because of that trend, there are now more cannabis workers than dental hygienists in the US, according
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The pace of cannabis-industry job growth increased throughout 2017 as businesses went on a hiring spree to gear up for the start of legal sales in California, according to ZipRecruiter's chief economist, Cathy Barrera. (Marijuana became legal in that state on January 1.)
A majority of Americans support legalizing cannabis. Some 58% of voters said in aQuinnipiac pollearlier this month that marijuana should be legal, and 70% of voters oppose enforcing federal laws in states that have made marijuana legal.
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