Pollak said.A few years ago, navigating the marijuana industry felt like a journey to the fringes of legitimacy. AdvertisementSupported byCannabis, Marijuana, Weed, Pot? A ZipRecruiter economist put the number of cannabis jobs nationwide at 200,000 to 300,000.CreditJim Wilson/The New York TimesIt’s hard to know exactly how many jobs there are in the legal cannabis business. She has since been joined by competitors at Jefferies and Piper Jaffray, and cannabis companies now attend investor events alongside big consumer products companies like Kellogg, Coca-Cola and Procter & Gamble. A version of this article appears in print on , on Page BU1 of the New York edition with the headline: Cannabis Industry Produces Sweet Fruit: Jobs.
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Cannabis, Marijuana, Weed, Pot? Just Call It a Job Machine
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April 25, 2019SAN FRANCISCO — David Dancer is a 48-year-old marketing executive who has worked for big brands like Charles Schwab and Teleflora. A year ago, he got a call from a recruiter for a different kind of company: MedMen, a cannabis retailer that has been called “the Apple Store of weed.” The opening was for a chief marketing officer. He took it.
One of Mr. Dancer’s early projects was a slick two-minute video by the director Spike Jonze that begins with an anecdote...
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