New research has found a connection between legal cannabis and more job opportunities.
Conducted by researchers from San Diego State and Bentley universities, the study examined survey results from 2002-2020 in an attempt to explore the impact of legal marijuana on the economy.
Other demographics that appeared to be positively impacted included young racial minorities and people working within the agriculture sector.
“These results are consistent with the opening of a new licit industry for marijuana and (especially for older individuals) a substitution away from harder substances such as opioids,” investigators wrote.
While the research is related to productivity and weed, it differed from similar studies by focusing wholly on economic trends post-legalization of marijuana and the fact that there’s a new industry and, thus, a new source of jobs.
Researchers theorized that not only did legal cannabis result in more work opportunities, it also kept users
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