Report: Legal Marijuana Industry Has Created 123,00 Full-Time Jobs

A woman examines cannabis products at a medical marijuana dispensary. (Sonya Yruel/Drug Policy Alliance)

NORML | January 12, 2017

SEATTLE, WA — The legal cannabis industry is responsible for the creation of an estimated 123,000 full-time jobs in the United States, according to data provided by the online content provider Leafly.com.

Authors analyzed state-by-state economic data to draw their extrapolations. They estimated some 58,000 full-time jobs in states where both the medical and social use…