Executives No Longer Spooked by Pot Jobs: Cannabis Weekly
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Professionals used to shy away from jobs in the marijuana industry -- or at least keep them hush hush. Now, the tables have turned.
Liesl Bernard, chief executive of San Diego-based CannabizTeam, which places both managers and temps at cannabis companies, said she used to have to “beg people to take a chance on cannabis” when she started her business in 2016. Executives were concerned that working with marijuana, which is illegal on the federal level in the U.S., could cause them to lose professional licenses in areas such as accounting or law.