Will the Marijuana Industry Be Unionized?
With each election cycle, marijuana is legalized in another batch of states. On Tuesday, California, Maine, Massachusetts, and Nevada legalized recreational marijuana, while Arkansas, Florida, and North Dakota approved marijuana for medicinal use. As legal weed becomes commonplace, it is the duty of cannabis advocates to look to the next battles.
In the next decade, the fight will not be about whether or not marijuana will be legalized, but what the weed business will look like. One of the most important issues will be the relationship between workers, management, and the government in the marijuana industry. Considering our newly minted conservative leadership across all three branches of government, union advocacy will have to come from the grassroots. While new states celebrate #legalizingit, let’s look at how unions might work in and for the cannabis industry.
Conversations about unionizing the marijuana industry are nothing new. As early as 2010, Northern California cannabis workers...
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