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Cannabis Job Fair Tries To Connect Industry With Job Hopefuls

DENVER (CBS4) - From college-age folks in T-shirts and jeans to executives in suit and ties, hundreds attended a cannabis career fair in Denver on Tuesday.

The event, considered one of the largest of its kind in the world, started Tuesday morning with a breakfast aimed at luring business executives into the lucrative pot world from more mainstream companies.

Approximately 50 companies attended the fair, looking to fill positions from bud-tenders to upper-level management.

The CEO of Amercanex, an online exchange that connects growers and distributors to pot-edible manufacturers and packagers, said his company is growing quickly.

"We're growing so quickly that we're looking to take a staff of nine to 10 to a staff of 50 to 60 over the course of the next year," Steve Janjic said. "The market is growing so fast that literally it's like we need employees, but we just can't find them. So I think events like this are very important to us."

Some potential employees visited the fair from out of state.

"I'm out here looking for a job in the cannabis industry, trying to quit my manual-labor job in New York and pursue something I'm passionate about," Rudy Nazario said.

Analysts estimate about 12,000 people are employed in the cannabis industry.

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