IT’S THE ECONOMIES, STUPID

YOU MAY HAVE heard about the impressive jobs numbers in the cannabis industry. The latest: There are now 211,000 full-time weed jobs across the United States, with a robust 64,000 or so added in 2018 alone. Since the US government doesn’t keep track of such things, and probably won’t so long as cannabis is illegal at the federal level, Leafly and

Whitney Economics have painstakingly “gone state-by-state to tally the total number of direct, full-time jobs in the state-legal cannabis industry.”