Job fair being held for pot industry

[DonViejo]

Source: ASSOCIATED PRESS

DENVER (AP) — Job seekers are expected to turn out in droves for a marijuana job fair in Denver.

More than a dozen Colorado marijuana-related companies are joining forces to recruit hundreds of people 21 and older for positions in accounting, technology, advertising and selling the now-legal drug.

The event Thursday is expected to draw about 700 job seekers.

According to the Denver Post (http://tinyurl.com/lnck5zp ), use of marijuana is prohibited in line or at the fair.

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Read more: http://www.salon.com/2014/03/13/job_fair_being_held_for_pot_industry/

[leftyladyfrommo]

1. I wonder if they will hire people over 50.

Maybe that's the answer for all of us who have been forced out of our jobs.

Most of us probably have year's worth of experience in the pot field.

[TheSarcastinator]

3. smoking chronic doesn't qualify you for a gig in the industry

any more than drinking would qualify you for a job as a distiller or driving a car would qualify you for a job as an auto mechanic or sales person.

Can you tell the difference between an indica and sativa by looking at the plant? Do you know how one affects you differently than the other? Do you know which types tend toward the different terpenoids profiles (myrcene vs pinene, for example)? Do you know what decarboxylation is and why it is so important to the extraction process? Do you know the different phyto-cannabinoids and their actions upon the two endo-cannabinoid receptor sites in the human body?

I helped found one of CO's first medical marijuana bakeries -- now defunct, we didn't trust the Feds -- that lasted for several years. One of the things we found when searching for employees is that while there are a lot of enthusiastic folks who wish to join the industry, most of them have attitudes just like the one that you expressed and didn't take the science and learning part of the industry seriously. Because there is such a need for legitimacy in the public sphere, this is very important.

Seriously, for anyone: if you wish to move to CO or WA and get a job in the cannabis industry, STUDY. Learn the science of cannabinoids, plant terpenes and the the strains and varieties. Know about the ECS and how it works. Learn the proper process for activated cannabinoid extraction. That is the only way you will be taken seriously for anything other than a "budtender" gig, which pays about as much as working at a record or book store but requires a lengthy and intrusive licensing process by the state.

[leftyladyfrommo]

7. Sorry. I was joking. n/t

No one wants to hire us over 50's. Doesn't matter how much experience we have.

Bummer

[bahrbearian]

9. Hey I'll hire you when I get my License, You've got enough experience.

Not Joking. You'll have to move to Washington.

[leftyladyfrommo]

11. Perfect. My family lives in Spokane.

I grew up there. The rest of that side of the family lives in Seattle and Olympia.

I would have to think up something to tell my brother. I don't think Pot worker would go over very well with him.

[Le Taz Hot]

2. So, through tax revenues, pot is bringing in millions

of dollars to Colorado, patients are able to legally buy their medication, law enforcement budgets are freed up to seek out REAL criminals, jails should become less crowded and now they're adding jobs. Could someone tell me again how pot is a bad thing?

[Scuba]

5. +1

[Sunlei]

4. I read Colorados 2 billion a year tourist industry will soon double.

Lots of jobs, everywhere tourists go.

[leftyladyfrommo]

8. There we go.

Maybe all of us over 50 who have lost out jobs could fine work in the increased tourist industry. Probably wouldn't pay very well but still would be better than the nothing we are getting right now.

[Sunlei]

13. if you have a green thumb or like to cook 'pot treats' you too could build an empire :)

[leftyladyfrommo]

14. I tried growing pot plants once

and it was a total failure. They took forever to sprout and then didn't grow worth a damn. I must have been doing something wrong. They are supposed to grow like weeds.

[Iliyah]

6. Yep, Co is the template

Here's hoping that Gov. Brown (California) changes his opinion and we get another prop on the ballot which I think will pass (although outside opposition money will flow in).

[PasadenaTrudy]

10. I sure hope so! n/t

[Jamastiene]

12. A'ight, other 48 states, time to get on the ball.

Or should I say on the bong. Pot could literally save our economy, imo.

[shanti]

15. So....

with cannabis legal in CO and WA, will employers still drug test people before employment? I've been wondering about this.

[jmowreader]

16. Yes, of course they will

A lot of jobs are classified as "safety sensitive" and in those, federal law (which says marijuana is bad, m'kay?) overrides state law.

I wonder: how many employers who use nothing inherently dangerous in their work (a coffee bar that sells pastries baked off-site comes to mind) will declare their jobs "safety sensitive" so they can continue to test their workers?