White collar employees are going inexperienced in Illinois. Though budtenders and ganja growers have lengthy been the face of authorized weed, jobs in a bunch of fields not typically related to the hashish business are popping up across the state. With Illinois’ marijuana business starting to growth after legalization, some 9,000 individuals are working within the business, together with greater than 6,000 employed in 2019, based on a current report from Leafly. Many of the newer job postings are for white-collar positions — from physicians to varsity lecturers — that don’t require you to get your fingers soiled. Among these already within the business are Dr. Rahul Khare, who labored as an emergency doctor
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Cannabis Resource Fair panel will embrace Mayor Lori
Mayor Lori Lightfoot will headline a panel dialogue Saturday kicking off town’s first Cannabis Resource Fair, the place Chicagoans can find out about employment alternatives within the weed trade and the method for having pot-related offenses wiped from their information. The free occasion, set for 10 a.m. on the UIC Forum, 725 W. Roosevelt, will characteristic 65 companies, organizations and nonprofits working in and across the pot trade, in line with an announcement from the mayor’s workplace. Thirty-five of them shall be accepting purposes and resumes from attendees. “Ensuring this emerging industry brings unprecedented economic and social benefits to our communities has been at the heart of our efforts since day one,” Lightfoot mentioned. “By