Job Seekers Swarm Marijuana Job Fair

[Jewboo]

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Job Seekers Swarm Marijuana Job Fair


DENVER (CBS4) – If there was any doubt that the “green rush” is on in Colorado, the scene outside a marijuana industry career fair in Denver on Thursday looked like a throwback to the Great Recession.

Thousands of people waited for hours with resumes in hand in a line that stretched several blocks. The O.penVAPE Cannabis Job Fair featured 15 different businesses associated with recreational marijuana sales, and it had turn people away by the day’s end.

St. Louis resident Shannon Irvin has been jobless for several months. He drove to Colorado for the fair with hopes of breaking into the state’s budding industry and wound up waiting in line for 2 hours.

“With this type of industry and the way the money’s coming in, this is the place to be right now,” he said.

Luke Ramirez is the co-owner of Walking Raven Wellness Center, a medical marijuana dispensary that now also sells recreational pot.

He said they set up a booth at the fair because they’ve had no choice but to expand their business since pot sales became legal at the start of the year.

“Our sales increased about 300 percent. Our traffic through the stores increased by the same number,” Ramirez said. “So, that’s why we’re here today. We actually need to hire more folks to help with that traffic and that added revenue.”

According to newly released statistics from the state, $14 million was spent on marijuana purchases in January.

There is still some question about how successful the pot industry will be, but analysts say it is sustainable and still not near its peak.

“It has been a very harsh economic environment for over a decade, and this industry has a lot of very exciting opportunities for young people,” said Michael Elliott, executive director of the Marijuana Industry Group.

Linky (http://denver.cbslocal.com/2014/03/14/job-seekers-swarm-marijuana-job-fair-as-colorados-green-rush-continues/)


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keep the unemployed goyim stoned

[EE_]

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America 2014



Job Seekers Swarm Marijuana Job Fair


DENVER (CBS4) – If there was any doubt that the “green rush” is on in Colorado, the scene outside a marijuana industry career fair in Denver on Thursday looked like a throwback to the Great Recession.

Thousands of people waited for hours with resumes in hand in a line that stretched several blocks. The O.penVAPE Cannabis Job Fair featured 15 different businesses associated with recreational marijuana sales, and it had turn people away by the day’s end.

St. Louis resident Shannon Irvin has been jobless for several months. He drove to Colorado for the fair with hopes of breaking into the state’s budding industry and wound up waiting in line for 2 hours.

“With this type of industry and the way the money’s coming in, this is the place to be right now,” he said.

Luke Ramirez is the co-owner of Walking Raven Wellness Center, a medical marijuana dispensary that now also sells recreational pot.

He said they set up a booth at the fair because they’ve had no choice but to expand their business since pot sales became legal at the start of the year.

“Our sales increased about 300 percent. Our traffic through the stores increased by the same number,” Ramirez said. “So, that’s why we’re here today. We actually need to hire more folks to help with that traffic and that added revenue.”

According to newly released statistics from the state, $14 million was spent on marijuana purchases in January.

There is still some question about how successful the pot industry will be, but analysts say it is sustainable and still not near its peak.

“It has been a very harsh economic environment for over a decade, and this industry has a lot of very exciting opportunities for young people,” said Michael Elliott, executive director of the Marijuana Industry Group.

Linky (http://denver.cbslocal.com/2014/03/14/job-seekers-swarm-marijuana-job-fair-as-colorados-green-rush-continues/)


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keep the unemployed goyim stoned

I heard a lot of major corporations are moving to Colorado, (high tech, manufacturing, banking, etc.) to hire all the workers wasted on super pot...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SH60OQN8Lzc

[Serpo]

The only ''growth'' area in America...........................

[mick silver]

they had to be giving away free pot for that many people to show up

[Serpo]

they had to be giving away free pot for that many people to show up


Perks of the job,that is if you get one of these jobs...............

[Libertytree]

It seems many here would favor alcohol prohibition too. Are yaw'll tee-totalers?

[Serpo]

It seems many here would favor alcohol prohibition too. Are yaw'll tee-totalers?


Ask book .........he has very high morals..............hahaha

[EE_]

It seems many here would favor alcohol prohibition too. Are yaw'll tee-totalers?

There was a 2 hour special on TV the other night. CO looks like a whole population of stoned people. The lines stretch around the blocks from the pot stores and the owners say it's never ending.
People are going right from work with their paychecks to buy. People that never smoked befor are getting in on the action.

You know I'm no prude, but something about this just doesn't sit well with me. It looks like the people are being played.

Wish I could get in on the action...I'd open video game arcade/munchy shops right next to the pot stores. That way no one has to go home...or to work for that matter.

I still don't know how they can put this high grade THC in all the cookies and candy and keep them from falling into children's hands.

I'm thinking of marketing cans of high grade pot baby formula (novality for adult use only)
What the hell, why not.

[Libertytree]

There was a 2 hour special on TV the other night. CO looks like a whole population of stoned people. The lines stretch around the blocks from the pot stores and the owners say it's never ending.
People are going right from work with their paychecks to buy. People that never smoked befor are getting in on the action.

You now I'm no prude, but something about this just doesn't sit well with me. It looks like the people are being played.

Wish I could get in on the action...I'd open video game arcade/munchy shops right next to the pot stores. That way no one has to go home...or to work for that matter.

Without having seen the tv show, the statement you made "a whole population of stoned people" tells me that's the picture they wanted to paint. If there had been MSM after prohibition I can imagine something similar...ie, freedom is bad.

I came a hair of moving to CO before the vote with the hope that it was a great opportunity in some shape, form or fashion.

[ShortJohnSilver]

Having lived in CO, I can say that people are more outgoing, and more "aware" of govt BS than back in PA. In PA the attitude is "I got mine, screw you" and NJ is even worse.

[midnight rambler]

Ask book .........he has very high morals..............hahaha

Indeed, moral standards beyond reproach.

Book's theme song -


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pD8mzZun5wo

[midnight rambler]

It looks like the people are being played.


Strikes me as a fad that the sheep want to be a part of so they appear trendy and cool, no different than any of the other recent and current fads.

[EE_]

Without having seen the tv show, the statement you made "a whole population of stoned people" tells me that's the picture they wanted to paint. If there had been MSM after prohibition I can imagine something similar...ie, freedom is bad.

I came a hair of moving to CO before the vote with the hope that it was a great opportunity in some shape, form or fashion.

It looked real. I think because it's new people are excercising their freedom (cough cough). Maybe once the novalty wears off, it won't be so crazy. It looked like people are getting addicted. They ain't smoking no little girl joints/bong hits either of this super pot...they're doing massive hits after hits. I'd probably puke after the first couple bong hits of this monster dope.

I still think decriminalizing pot is what should have happened...but that would be little too much like freedom. Can't have that.
Legalizing is nothing but control, tracking, regulating, taxing...and the need to create more laws.

[EE_]

Strikes me as a fad that the sheep want to be a part of so they appear trendy and cool, no different than any of the other recent and current fads.

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[Libertytree]

It looked real. I think because it's new people are excercising their freedom (cough cough). Maybe once the novalty wears off, it won't be so crazy. It looked like people are getting addicted. They ain't smoking no little girl joints/bong hits either of this super pot...they're doing massive hits after hits. I'd probably puke after the first couple bong hits of this monster dope.

I still think decriminalizing pot is what should have happened...but that would be little too much like freedom. Can't have that.
Legalizing is nothing but control, tracking, regulating, taxing...and the need to create more laws.

I agree with ya on the decriminalization part but this is still better than the alternative. Personal cultivation is the key to me and at least CO did that while WA didn't.

Hemp is also key in this equation and I cannot stress this point more.

[osoab]

Without having seen the tv show, the statement you made "a whole population of stoned people" tells me that's the picture they wanted to paint. If there had been MSM after prohibition I can imagine something similar...ie, freedom is bad.

I came a hair of moving to CO before the vote with the hope that it was a great opportunity in some shape, form or fashion.

1 in 5 murikans take psychotropic drugs. The waste is reran through the water systems.

One in Five American Adults Takes Psychiatric Drugs (http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/11/17/one-in-five-american-adults-takes-psychiatric-drugs/)
Then you have this.

70 Percent of Americans take Prescription Drugs (http://psychcentral.com/news/2013/06/20/70-percent-of-americans-take-prescription-drugs/56275.html)
We are all on drugs.

[EE_]

I agree with ya on the decriminalization part but this is still better than the alternative. Personal cultivation is the key to me and at least CO did that while WA didn't.

Hemp is also key in this equation and I cannot stress this point more.

Yeah, maybe once people get their home crops going the business will die off a bit.
The street dealers they interviewed said the legal pot stores weren't hurting their business, because the prices was so much higher.

Definately with ya on the hemp business.
Maybe you should have given it a go when you said you wanted to...there's must still be tremendous opportunity.

[Libertytree]

Yeah, maybe once people get their home crops going the business will die off a bit.
The street dealers they interviewed said the legal pot stores weren't hurting their business, because the prices was so much higher.

Definately with ya on the hemp business.
Maybe you should have given it a go when you said you wanted to...there's must still be tremendous opportunity.

I think we also have to remember that it's a hard thing to gauge as far as demand goes. There might have been a whole lot more pent up demand than anyone imagined, folks smokin shit weed wanting to upgrade, not partaking for X reasons etc... The price will drop after the saturation period.

If it were me I'd set up a lil biz setting up and teaching how to grow your own personal.

[EE_]

I think we also have to remember that it's a hard thing to gauge as far as demand goes. There might have been a whole lot more pent up demand than anyone imagined, folks smokin shit weed wanting to upgrade, not partaking for X reasons etc... The price will drop after the saturation period.

If it were me I'd set up a lil biz setting up and teaching how to grow your own personal.

Might as well have a growing supply store too.

Sooner, or later there'll be a glut up pot in CO. I guess trafficing high grade pot to other states will be big.
Right now they are consuming everything they can get their hands on.

[Libertytree]

And it's a supply that won't play out, ie goldrush. There's so many strains of pot that there will be specialty growers for what's in demand.

[madfranks]

Without having seen the tv show, the statement you made "a whole population of stoned people" tells me that's the picture they wanted to paint. If there had been MSM after prohibition I can imagine something similar...ie, freedom is bad.

I came a hair of moving to CO before the vote with the hope that it was a great opportunity in some shape, form or fashion.

I live in Colorado, and I've driven by these shops dozens of times and I've never seen a line, not once.

[gunDriller]

It looked real. I think because it's new people are excercising their freedom (cough cough). Maybe once the novalty wears off, it won't be so crazy. It looked like people are getting addicted. They ain't smoking no little girl joints/bong hits either of this super pot...they're doing massive hits after hits. I'd probably puke after the first couple bong hits of this monster dope.

I agree.

I am a lightweight med user, about 1/3 to 1/2 gram a day. I inhale once, and then wait an hour or 2 before having any more. Once I tried putting my dose on a Gold-Silver scale that measures to .01 grams - and it weighed .00 grams. Not a heavy smoker.


I have sat in a dispensary in San Francisco, when they still allowed people to "medicate" in the dispensary (since forbidden), and watched a "support group" of med users passing around joint after joint after joint, most of them coughing their heads off, and complaining about their colds and coughs, like "how do I get rid of this cough ?" (stop smoking so much, you idiot !)

However, such sentiment is VERY un-popular in the medical marijuana community. After once mentioning my preference for less smoke, I was actually chastised once by another person, and told, "it's medically proven that Cannabis does zero damage to your lungs."

Personally I prefer the usage patterns of some pro athletes - they consume, but usually, after a workout, or after yoga, to relax - and not enough to jinx the next day's training.


The BHO, where they use butane to extract the active ingredients and come up with a product that is almost pure THC and other cannabinoids, is VERY strong. Even the most potent cannabis rarely gets above 20% THC, and that is 20% of what is measured in a gas chromatograph, not 20% by weight. i.e. BHO is 5 to 10 times more potent than the strongest Cannabis - or more.

However, in the Cannabis business, a customer like me who comes in to a dispensary, sits at the counter for 5 to 10 minutes, examines maybe 5 different strains, then buys maybe a gram of one and an 1/8 of another ... let's just say, such behavior is not popular. It's a numbers game, they want customers who smoke a LOT, the customer who comes in and buys an ounce once a week, and consumes 1/8 ounce a day.

I have seen usage patterns up to 10 grams a day (of Cannabis) - and I have also seen what happens when such users run out. Not pretty.


On the other end, once I moved and didn't have access to marijuana for about 7 months. I remember being out on about a 12 mile hike, and buying a hempseed cookie at a hemp store on Highway 101. I swear to God, the very small amount of THC in the seeds was enough to have a minor psychoactive effect. (Again, that also goes against popular orthodoxy in the marijuana community).

So, I often have to keep my mouth shut around other med users and people who work in the industry.


There is a start-up company in Colorado named "Green Dot Labs". They have some venture capital behind them and have a real clean-room style. Their product is precisely dispensed BHO on a piece of rolling paper or something, packaged up in a foil packet similar to how yeast is packaged.

They are not going after the lightweight user who just buys 1 packet & 1 dose for perhaps $2 at retail. They are going after the party crowd & heavy "med" users, people who buy 10 or 20 packets at a time, held together with rubber bands.

Green Dot would not make any money on the lightweight users. They would not even exist if their business plan said that they were going after the lightweight users.

I think they are going to damage a lot of brains. If I said that publicly at a Cannabis industry function, I would get a shit-storm of flak.


It's interesting how political correctness works, even in the medical marijuana community.

[Jewboo]

I have sat in a dispensary in San Francisco, when they still allowed people to "medicate" in the dispensary (since forbidden), and watched a "support group" of med users passing around joint after joint after joint, most of them coughing their heads off, and complaining about their colds and coughs, like "how do I get rid of this cough ?" (stop smoking so much, you idiot !)



Sharing a joint with several sick people might be an alternative cause of infection.

[midnight rambler]

Sharing a joint with several sick people might be an alternative cause of infection.

It's a surefire way to share the herpes virus with others.

[gunDriller]

It's a surefire way to share the herpes virus with others.

I love talking about Herpes ! /sarc


In Vancouver some guy at a liquor store, checkout guy, said, "don't share a drinking glass with just anybody you meet, a lot of people here have ... what's that liver disease ... not cirrhoses - oh yeah - HEPATITIS.

At the dispensary in the smoking room, I must say the conversations can be darkly comical.

"I have hepatitis."

"Oh well, I have hepatitis C."

"I got Hep C too ! Hey you done with that joint yet ?"

I'm serious, it was like the Hepatitis C version of a Cheech & Chong skit.

[midnight rambler]

I love talking about Herpes ! /sarc


In Vancouver some guy at a liquor store, checkout guy, said, "don't share a drinking glass with just anybody you meet, a lot of people here have ... what's that liver disease ... not cirrhoses - oh yeah - HEPATITIS.

At the dispensary in the smoking room, I must say the conversations can be darkly comical.

"I have hepatitis."

"Oh well, I have hepatitis C."

"I got Hep C too ! Hey you done with that joint yet ?"

I'm serious, it was like the Hepatitis C version of a Cheech & Chong skit.

Yeah, after posting that I realized I shoulda posted, "...share herpes, hep c, and anything else they may have."

[gunDriller]

Yeah, after posting that I realized I shoulda posted, "...share herpes, hep c, and anything else they may have."

it's what my mother calls, "not dinner table conversation".