DENVER (MainStreet) — Lynn Crawford voted against legalizing marijuana in Colorado in November 2012, but on Thursday afternoon he was standing in line at a marijuana job fair.
"I think the bad is going to outweigh the good," the 63-year-old software developer said, explaining his vote.
But Crawford, who said he's been unemployed for the past few months, will tolerate the negative repercussions of the legislation if it means he gets a new, green job.
He was among more than 1,200 job hunters attending what was billed as "CannaSearch," the first-ever job fair for the legal marijuana industry. He waited for more than three hours in a line that snaked at times for nearly three blocks.
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The throngs were much larger than organizers had anticipated.
"I thought we would congratulate ourselves if a hundred people showed up," said Ralph Morgan, co-founder of O.PenVAPE, one of the largest companies in the nation's nascent legal marijuana industry. "I didn't realize we would be seeing 150 to 200 people an hour."
Many job seekers came from out of state, Morgan said, and some came from as far as Texas, Oklahoma and Tennessee. Many came not because they were unemployed but because they want to get into this new industry as it begins to explode with growth.
A security guard posted at the front door kept an orderly flow, like a bouncer at a tony nightclub, so that O.PenVAPEs 6,000-squarefoot headquarters in downtown Denver wasn't overrun. The crowd, ranging from folks 21 of age on up, was exceptionally calm and patient, but as the day wore on, some late-arriving job seekers were turned away.
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