As state and licensed medical marijuana companies take the final approach towards selling legal marijuana in Illinois, a union held a seminar Saturday in Gurnee to enlighten potential employees who are interested in working in the burgeoning industry.
Qualified medical marijuana employees will be needed in the near future to distribute the marijuana in different forms approved at Lake County locations. Three dispensary licenses were permitted in Lake County back on Feb 3, 2013 when Illinois became the 20th state to legalize the medicinal use of marijuana.
Close to two dozen people showed up for the two-hour seminar Saturday at the Lake County Federation of Teachers offices. They were educated about job requirements and opportunities, defense measures and joining United Food and Commercial Workers International Union’s 1-million plus workforce In the United States.
Dispensary license holder Northshore Alternative Therapy, LLC and The Lake Forest Group security consultant, as well as officials from UFCW Local 881, depicted the stringent requirements of being employed in a new field.
Northshore, owned by Lake Forest residents Andrew and Veronica Hunt, are preparing to become of three people living in a new building in the Briergate Business District west of Route 41 located in Highland Park. Andy Hunt stated the inside of the marijuana shop would take up 2,400 square feet in the 7,700 square foot facility and will resemble “a higher end doctor’s office with pharmacy, cashier window and teller with product stored behind a bulletproof (partition).”
The Hunts yet to have a name company should be prepared to sell legal medical grade marijuana products by the end of the year, Andrew Hunt stated. It will offer jobs to eight to ten people to begin helping as many as 20 patients in a single day. The Hunts stated they chose Highland Park because of close it is to their Lake Forest home, in order to keep oversight of the business.
Officials state the Highland Park marijuana shop will initiate on sight training for new workers that hired.
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