There is an interesting article in Leafly “Cannabis Jobs Count” part of a series on jobs in the legal cannabis economy. Leafly researchers estimated there are 122,814 legal full-time cannabis jobs in America.
That number includes an estimated 58,000 full-time jobs in states where both the medical and social use of cannabis is legal, as well as another 65,000 full-time jobs in states that permit a medical marijuana market.
In the medical marijuana market, California led the job list with an estimated 43,374 full-time jobs (compared with Colorado at 23,407 jobs and Washington with 22,952 jobs).
Researchers set the low estimate for California’s medical cannabis market value at $2.1 billion and the high at $2.7 billion. The article contains a good explanation of how they came to the numbers for market value and jobs.
Read the full article here at – How Many Jobs Depend on Legal Cannabis.