How To: Get A Job In Medical Marijuana
By David Fiedler
Imagine that you’re not only surrounded by marijuana all day, but you’re getting paid to work with it.
Imagine a school where “higher education” isn’t just an academic phrase, it’s an accurate description.
Imagine a job where “drug testing” involves making sure that employees know the difference between indica and sativa strains of cannabis.
It sounds like a stoner’s dream. But for an estimated 50,000 to 100,000 lucky folks in one of the 15 medical marijuana states, it’s a daily reality.
It’s A Growing Industry
The average medical patient has contact with people in a number of different positions in the industry on a regular basis. There’s the doctor who writes your recommendation, and the staff in the dispensary where you buy your medicine, and…well, that’s about it, actually.
But that scenario oversimplifies a much larger picture. There’s support staff in the doctor’s office, some with professional titles or licenses (Nurse Practitioner, Physician’s Assistant) and some not (office manager, data entry). When you visit a dispensary, you mostly notice the budtender who helps you choose your medicine, but there are also office staff, security people, couriers, and so on.
And where does all that cannabis come from? There are growers, plant tenders, trimmers, and more security people. Alongside of that effort comes the people who own and work in retail hydroponic shops, gardening stores, and head shops. Behind them, their suppliers who blow glass, develop fertilizers and nutrients, and design and manufacture hardware like grow lights, tents, fans, and filters.
There are support industries behind all of these, especially attorneys and insurance, but also things like graphic design, realtors, IT staff, marketing, sales, and human resources. And then there’s media: the folks who create medical marijuana-oriented books, videos, websites and magazines…web designers, artists, photographers, publishers, and even the odd writer here and there.
You’ve Got To Be Carefully Taught
There aren’t many people who will run off to medical school after hearing about this kind of opportunity, perhaps, or those who will sign up for engineering school just to learn how to design grow lights. But there are enough people excited enough by the very idea of a medical marijuana industry that some far-sighted ones have started training people for it.
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