A new report claims the number of people working in Michigan’s marijuana industry doubled over the past year. It’s difficult to put a firm number on Michigan pot employment since no government agency or industry group is tracking it.
But Seattle-based cannabis industry website Leafly is out with its fifth annual national jobs estimate. The report estimates nationally 321,000 people are working in the industry in states where medical, adult-use or both are legal.
Leafly spokesman Bruce Barcott places Michigan’s cannabis job number at 18,078, an increase of 9,200 over their 2019 estimate.
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