{"id":1319,"date":"2021-09-24T10:01:57","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T10:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/CAIiEHWYbDuYe0roC9R_mZfGNBoqGAgEKg8IACoHCAowjtSUCjC30XQwjqi5AQ"},"modified":"2021-09-24T10:01:57","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T10:01:57","slug":"greener-pastures-marijuana-jobs-are-becoming-a-refuge-for-retail-and-restaurant-workers-the-washington-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/?p=1319","title":{"rendered":"Greener pastures: Marijuana jobs are becoming a refuge for retail and restaurant workers &#8211; The Washington Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/greener-pastures-marijuana-jobs-are-becoming-a-refuge-for-retail-and-restaurant-workers-the-washington-post.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p data-el=\"text\" class=\"font--article-body font-copy gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md\">At the Hempire Collective in Loomis, Mich., where she works, sales have more than doubled in the last year, to roughly $500,000 a month, according to co-owner Mario Porter. He\u2019s expanded his dispensary staff from seven to 12, and expects to hire more this year. Many of his new employees, he said, come from retail jobs that they left during the pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the Hempire Collective in Loomis, Mich., where she works, sales have more than doubled in the last year, to roughly $500,000 a month, according to co-owner Mario Porter. He\u2019s expanded his dispensary staff from seven to 12, and expects to hire more this year. Many of his new employees, he said, come from retail jobs that they left during the pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/greener-pastures-marijuana-jobs-are-becoming-a-refuge-for-retail-and-restaurant-workers-the-washington-post.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}