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What it’s really like working in the legal cannabis industry

   10/24/2023  28 Comments on What it’s really like working in the legal cannabis industry

Legalizing pot has opened the floodgates to a new multibillion dollar industry in multiple states. But where there are high profits, there’s often high exploitation. The experience of unionized cannabis delivery drivers and warehouse workers who belong to Grassdoor Workers provides an instructive example of exploitative practices found across industries, and how workers can organize to fight back. Despite the best efforts of management to keep employees isolated from one another, Grassdoor workers managed to organize in response to company wage theft and successfully joined their Teamsters local. Grassdoor Workers organizer “G” speaks with The Real News.

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28 thoughts on “What it’s really like working in the legal cannabis industry”

  1. This industry is so bitter sweet. Cannabis was so much better when the 1% didn’t have its grimy mitts on it, practically icing nepotism with CEO’s giving their flunky nephews grow jobs, and producing bullshit, just to over charge and keep us on bread crumbs while we sell all their shit. No commissions on sales no equity. Nothing. Cannabis industry failed the PEOPLE

  2. My hobbies are painting pictures 🖼 and listening to shortwave and ssb and I have 5 shortwave receivers and iam thinking about getting my ham license

  4. Me and my cousin and his wife are going to san Diego CALIFORNIA in October 19-23 for five days we are flying there

  5. I live in Franklin Wisconsin it wood be nice whe marijuan is legal in Wisconsin then i can buy marijuan

  8. I don't care about the industry, but I do care about the taxes they get off of it. This is much like the taxes on cigarettes, tax it extremely high and any time you need you need some extra cash, raise the tax. If you smoke Marijuana for relaxation, I urge you to grow your own or buy from a grower you know. Don't give in to the ridiculous extortion of excessive taxation.

  9. I am curious to know what the starting pay is for a cannabis driver, also, how much does the company pay per mile driven, and lastly, do they get benefits like vacation time accrued and healthcare, for full-time employees. Are they all full-time employees?

  10. I don't like these types of podcast presentations. Do it in video format and I'll be interested, but otherwise use radio. I figure.

  11. cannabis facts Reduce anxiety. Reduce inflammation and relieve pain. Control nausea and vomiting caused by cancer chemotherapy. Kill cancer cells and slow tumor growth.and cannabis help with fis·cal and mintel healthcare

  13. Plenty of issues for sure but it still beats getting "searched" aka oftentimes that meanins being extrajudicially executed by some cop who claimed he "smelled weed", which the Supreme Court of Wisconsin just ruled was legal. RIP Philando Castille

  14. This is what one has to expect under capital. It can't and won't change under capital, ever. Capital ruins all it touches.

  16. Used and under paid tipicle of a greedy company that is only interested in money why consumers should be more selective in what companies to do business with

  18. Trying to Amazon the WEED industry is utterly ridiculous. Why is delivery so important? Has anyone ever heard of LIQUOR stores struggling for sales and profits? If a company has no money to actually HAVE A PROPER STORE then how does anyone expect commensurate pay?

  20. 11am est: I never heard you mention once the facts that the drug mafia that left farmers with their heads cut off etc when they wanted to stop the south or Central American drug mafia from taking over their family farm productions for food? The HISTORY of this drug scene. Maybe you should do some research on that and get program on what preceded your efforts to just unionize delivery drivers, which in itself is commendable.

  21. What’s it really like? Well you should hope your boss doesn’t take advantage of their employees and follows the state labor laws. Lots of employers don’t think labor laws are applicable to the MJ industry so they will try to turn you into their slave instead of an employee. The pay sucks in most states. You are not taken care of or respected. My employer even told us if we were hurt on the job we would be drug tested and fired! He wanted us to test our own product but used it like blackmail to terminate us if he wanted to for any reason he chose to.

  22. Legalized weed is junk weed…. doesn't even get you stoned it's Impostor Bud. I get more stoned off smoking the grass out of my front yard than this bullshit they're trying to pass off as weed😅

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