Cannabis is a booming industry and the Covid-19 pandemic has, if anything, helped. The legal cannabis industry now accounts for 321,000 full-time jobs across the 37 states with legal medical or adult use markets, according to the cannabis information site Leafly’s 2020 jobs report.
This past year, when much of the country was still reeling from Covid, the cannabis industry added 77,300 jobs, with US sales hitting $18.3 billion. The result is a 32 percent increase in year-over-year growth – creating jobs at a faster rate than any other industry in the United States.
But for many Black Americans – who are close to four times as likely to be arrested for cannabis charges as white people – the prospect of generating wealth through the cannabis industry is out of reach.
To find out more, click on https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/sep/07/cannabis-industry-black-americans