California Marijuana

DENVER – As the cannabis industry grows and evolves, so does its workforce. According to a new study by hiring platform Vangst, the nearly 400,000 people working in the industry coast to coast in 2021 were more diverse and better compensated than ever before. The industry employed 37 percent more Black workers in 2021 than in 2020, according to the study . The number of Indigenous peoples in the industry also rose, by 40 percent, and the Asian workforce increased by 1.4 percent. On the other hand, the number of Pacific Islanders and Latinx workers declined by 32 percent and 23 percent, respectively. At the same time, the number of White workers declined by 3 percent. The shifting ethnic composition of the workplace may indicate employers are making conscientious efforts to hire from at least some groups impacted by the war on drugs. Despite increased hiring from minority groups, 65 percent of industry workers are White, vastly outnumbering the next two most common ethnicities, Latin...