Reclassification doesn’t resolve the operational complexity that has made cannabis one of the hardest industries in the country to run at scale. Instead of solely juggling fragmented state rules, operators will now have to navigate the heavy compliance standards of federal agencies.
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 …
