Would honest career advice to kids include opportunities in the new growth industry, cannabis?

[jtuck004]

Do a google search some time on "U.S. legal cannabis sales totaled $5.4 billion in 2015 " or anything related to the cannabis industry - which is just getting started.

How much of your thinking about this has been shaped by people with racist motives? What if you threw all that aside and started over?

It's HARD to adjust one's thinking. But it could be profitable, so that helps. A lot.

Legal marijuana sales poised to hit $6.7 billion this year.

A new report by ArcView Market Research, a leading marijuana industry investment and research firm, shows legal marijuana sales hit $5.4 billion in 2015, which represents a 17 percent jump in total sales from 2014. And in 2016, the firm predicts market growth of 25 percent, leading to approximately $6.7 billion in total U.S. sales.

By 2020, ArcView Market Research predicts legal marijuana sales to hit $28.1 billion. For comparison, National Football League revenues totaled approximately $12 billion in 2015, according to a Fortune report.
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Sur, kid, absolutely I think you should pursue your dream of being in the NFL, NHL, whatever, regardless of the fact that your odds are really crappy of even getting the job. Nevertheless, it is your dream, go for it.

But the team might be owned by the stoners the adults in your life have trained you to laugh at today. Just sayin'.

Your odds of making more money in agriculture are far and away better...




http://national.suntimes.com/national-world-news/7/72/2528527/legal-marijuana-sales-predicted-nearly-7-billion-2016-28-billion-2020

[Viva_La_Revolution]

1. my kids have all discussed it

My youngest and i are. He delivers to patients and i create medible recipes.

[panader0]

2. My friend's daughter is doing quite well as a grower.

[Lochloosa]

3. Yes, but it's like any business. Know your product.

[NightWatcher]

4. Not until it's legal in the Fed's eyes. They're still raiding "legal " shops

[Turbineguy]

5. I would add the

Funeral industry to that. The GOP will probably create a tremendous opportunity in that sector.

[Codeine]

6. I lost a couple of employees to that.

They make less, but no dress code and a product they care about. History is a chronicle of changes.

[safeinOhio]

7. It is the future

Rich people in Columbia are now importing high quality U.S. product.

[Nevernose]

8. I teach night school in Las Vegas (not steadily anymore)

A kid comes in with an excellent example of a hand blown pipe, something truly artistic, who am I to tell him no? It's medically legal here, we're the only state with MMJ reciprocity, and hopefully in November it will be legal.

Obviously I encourage them to go to college -- horticulture or botany or business -- but most of these are decent, honest, paying jobs, working with very lovely people.

In night school, I've also had multiple strippers. In other towns this is probably not the best career path, but in Las Vegas? Those girls were making more money than anyone else on campus, including administration, and in THIS town at least stripping (or burlesque in some form or fashion) is a perfectly legitimate occupation. And all of those girls were still coming to school everyday, doing their homework, and then taking off their clothes for strangers after Algebra was over. Very weird.

I've only ever had one student that acknowledged openly that he was a prostitute. I'm not such a big fan of prostitution outside of well-regulated brothers (disease, danger, exploitation, etc, but the 19 year old was pulling $600 an hour. There's no way I could've convinced him to stop.

Tl;dr It depends on the situation and the student