The marijuana industry added 64,389 jobs in 2018, an increase of 44% from the year before. 

The fastest-growing industry in the U.S. right now is not tech. It’s pot.

The marijuana industry added 64,389 jobs in 2018, an increase of 44% from the year before, according to a new report from the cannabis website Leafly and Whitney Economics.

There are now more than 211,000 legal cannabis jobs in the U.S. And that number jumps to 296,000 when indirect jobs (suppliers or independent contractors) and induced jobs (project or business financing) are included, according to the report.

Not impressed? Think about this: the number of legal marijuana jobs in the U.S. now surpasses coal mining (52,000), textile manufacturing (112,000), and brewery workers (69,000).

(Though recreational marijuana is legal in 10 states and medical marijuana is legal in 34, it’s still illegal at the federal level; so the Bureau of Labor Statistics does not track jobs for the sector.)

In 2018, legal marijuana sales grew 34% to $10.8 billion in the U.S, according to the report...

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