With job growth as high as 30% in 2021, cannabis job market statistics are genuinely astounding. But statistics for the US criminal justice system are arguably even more dramatic.
There are now more legal cannabis professionals than hairstylists, barbers, and cosmetologists combined. A mature legal cannabis market could employ well over 1.5 million people in the United States alone in the years to come.
With all due respect to the celebrities with cannabis brands, the cultivators with decades of experience, and the marijuana influencers with hundreds of thousands of followers, the face of the industry is arguably the budtender behind the dispensary counter.
