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CNBC: “The marijuana industry looks like the fastest-growing job market in the country”

By admin_45 in IN THE NEWS CNBC: “The marijuana industry looks like the fastest-growing job market in the country”

Excerpt of CNBC quoting DataTrek co-founder Jessica Rabe's continued work on the marijuana industry:

.... "US marijuana legalization is a rare example of disruption creating jobs rather than destroying them,” Nick Colas, co-founder of DataTrek Research, said in a note Thursday that highlighted some of the cannabis jobs data. “With the US labor market recently showing signs of weakness and fears of an eventual recession in the wings, this is one industry that might soften the blow of an economic downturn.”

Colas expects pot-related job creation to continue as more states legalize the substance. He called cannabis “the fastest-growing labor market in the U.S"....

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