Talent Agency Targets Cannabis Professionals
Karson Humiston, the founder and president of Vangst Talent Network, has paired roughly 2,000 jobseekers from a wide range of professional backgrounds with high-profile gigs in the cannabis space, but fighting the industry’s persisting stigma can sometimes feel like a full-time job all on its own.
“This notion of a typical stoner sitting on the couch eating potato chips and smoking weed is what a lot of people carry in their minds…when I tell them I run a cannabis talent agency,” Humiston told Civilized.
“My response is always: do you think people working in the liquor industry are taking shots all day long? It’s just not the case, but it still tends to be the stigma.”
The reality, said Humiston, could not be farther from this irksome misconception. In the two years since she launched her Denver-based talent agency focusing specifically on the cannabis industry, Humiston has connected professionals from...
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