VIDEO: Marijuana is the fastest-growing sector in the U.S. job market
The fastest-growing industry in the U.S. right now is not tech. It’s pot.
The marijuana industry added 64,389 jobs in 2018, an increase of 44% from the year before, according to a new report from the cannabis website Leafly and Whitney Economics.
There are now more than 211,000 legal cannabis jobs in the U.S. And that number jumps to 296,000 when indirect jobs (suppliers or independent contractors) and induced jobs (project or business financing) are included, according to the report.