Blum Holdings Inc (BLMH)

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65 EMPLOYES IN 2 YEARS. HOLY F! THERE IS THE ANSWER many were looking for. Some said only 2 employees LMFAO.

nope! 65 EMPLOYEES

I said Derek is all ready making a fortune people said no! Friggen idiots. Derek is a genius. After reading this article it gives me more trust, faith and belief in TRTC and DEREK.

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MASSIVE NEWS, ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS 65 EMPLOYEES!

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NEW YORK (MainStreet) — After a decade working in investment banking, Derek Peterson learned that a friend's marijuana dispensary was clearing $18 million a year, dwarfing his $300,000 annual salary at Morgan Stanley. Rather than joining another Wall Street firm, Peterson decided to get serious about weed, launching his own marijuana dispensary called Blum in Oakland a year ago.

"We employ 40 people alone in the dispensary with solid wages and benefits," Peterson told MainStreet. "It's not just the dollar you bring to the community. It's the multiplier effect of the earnings being re-circulated in the community."

In fact, Peterson's Blum dispensary is currently hiring bud tenders to work the counter.

"They describe and explain the product to our patients much like a wine representative," Peterson said. "Pay starts at $18 an hour, and that's our lower range. You may start off working as a bud tender then become an assistant manager at a dispensary."

That's more than pay at Walmart, where the average, full-time hourly wage is $12.81.

Peterson is one of many proponents that the legalization of marijuana is ripe for creating new employment.

"Legalizing marijuana will create countless legitimate jobs and put many Americans who are financially struggling right now back to work," said Justin Hartfield, Orange County-based CEO of the Emerald Ocean Capital private equity firm and co-founder of weedmaps.com. "In addition to creating jobs, bringing the marijuana industry aboveground will benefit a number of secondary and tertiary industries, such as soil, lighting, packaging, advertising, chemical testing and labeling."

For example, Terra Tech (TRTC) is a publicly traded urban agricultural company valued in excess of $30 million that focuses on local farming and medical cannabis. The two-year-old company employs 65 people and is hiring commercial growers at a starting annual salary of $35,000.

"With an agricultural degree, a worker will have the ability to cultivate cannabis," said Peterson, who took the company public in February 2012. "We look for a strong background in agriculture. The biggest value added for us is an agricultural degree, a merchandising degree for our dispensary and strong retail or marketing experience is also helpful."

Although marijuana training is scarce, Oaksterdam University is one of the first and original schools for all aspects of cultivation and growing cannabis.

Dubbed Cannabis College, the university was founded in 2007 and offers two-day seminars to the general public for $495. Its curriculum includes classes that teach state and federal law, cooking with cannabis, growing, dispensary operations and indoor horticulture.

"Once our local, state and federal governments stop wasting so many public resources on arresting, prosecuting and incarcerating adults who choose to use marijuana, we'll have billions of dollars more every year to put into more adequately funding healthcare," Hartfield told MainStreet.

For the unemployed considering a move to Colorado or Washington in search of work, Peterson advises taking immediate action.

"The industry can pay a sustainable living wage," said Peterson. "You want to get to Colorado or Washington during the expansion phase to get the experience to develop a profession and secure a job quickly. It's better than working at Walmart."

--Written by Juliette Fairley for MainStreet

http://www.mainstreet.com/article/career/employment/legal-weed-offers-unemployment-more-hope-walmart?page=2