Construction labor shortages continue dominating industry conversations. The industry needed to attract roughly 454,000 additional workers in 2025 on top of normal hiring just to keep pace with demand. However, many of the workforce issues delaying projects today are happening behind the scenes.
Cannabis is at that inflection point now. The industry already supports approximately + 450,000 full-time equivalent jobs nationwide. The question is not whether workforce demand will grow, it is whether the infrastructure to manage that workforce can keep up.
The average lifespan in the United States is 77 years, but in the rapidly evolving cannabis sector, even 28 years can feel like a lifetime. On November 5, 1996, legislators …
