FlowerHire team insider comments on the struggle the cannabis industry faces when it comes to taxation, especially those in California.
Thought Leadership
Welcome to the first edition of The Gig: CannaPros Get Real where we get the skinny from working cannabis professionals about their careers and their relationship to the plant. CannaPro this week: Abigail Diehl, “The Wolf”@ Marimed Inc.
Illinois and Michigan are quickly becoming central hubs for cannabis activities in the U.S., and the breeding ground of upstart cannabis concepts and vertically integrated single state and multi-state operations.
Even more significantly, we’re hiring for as many operators on the East Coast as on the West Coast. This shift is noteworthy considering that until 2019, a majority of our 300+ executive placements were for legacy California operators.
David Belsky has been involved in over 350 strategic hires for the cannabis industry. Over that time, he’s learned a lot about what makes up the perfect cannabis hire. Hard work and a strong resume is not enough in the cannabis industry. You’ve got to have grit, passion, drive and so much more.
Over time cannabis has made clear progress toward legitimacy and further legality, but to date, very little has marked the advancement of this industry more definitively than the COVID-19 pandemic. How can an industry that has bee deemed essential be ineligible for assistance from the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP)?
In this webinar presented by FlowerHire and Leafwire, we explore cannabis growing technology that is currently available, how best practices in cannabis are evolving to meet demand, and what the future of cultivation will look like as more states come online.
As all of us face the new normal, we all need to understand new workplace expectations and how to navigate employee relations. As an answer to that, we have created a Webinar Series in Partnership with our friends at BlueFire Cannabis by FutureSense to bring you access and information on how to now function in the Cannabis Workplace.
A recent Forbes article observed that countries with women leaders have excelled in managing the Covid-19 crisis because of their ability to exemplify “transformational leadership”– a combination of vision, inspiration, direction-setting, and out-of-the-box thinking. This webinar series spotlights C-Suite level leaders in the cannabis industry.
FlowerHire and Leafwire assembled a panel of industry-leading cannabis regulatory and policy professionals to not only discuss the current state of cannabis policy during Covid-19.
In the past month, 30 states have declared cannabis an “essential service”. What does this mean for the future of cannabis and how can we stay positive and healthy during this time? FlowerHire’s Director of Client Services Karen Meshkov discusses it all.
Back-end meta description: Cannabis provides nationwide job growth. The cannabis employment rate continues to explode as the cannabis industry economy leads to huge job growth.
With the mission to Build a Conscious Cannabis Community, One Hire at a Time, the topic of community comes up often in our office and with our client and candidates. It begs the question, what precisely is community in cannabis? What has it looked like in the past, where are we now, and how the hell do we keep things cohesive in these tumultuous times?
2019 was an exciting and often challenging year for the Cannabis industry, and there are a lot of questions in the community about how 2020 will shake out. After nearly three full years in Cannabis and 300 placements of senior salaried candidates into the industry, the team at FlowerHire and CEO David Belsky share their look back on what happened in 2019 and our six predictions for 2020.
The Cannabis industry is moving forward at a frenetic pace. Frenetic means lots of energy and effort in a multitude of different disjointed ways. With each passing week it is getting more and more competitive. In California alone, there are over 400 vape brands and 100 pre roll joint brands being sold in 600+ licensed dispensaries.
Hi, I’m Ali. In May 2019 I became the newest member of the FlowerHire team. My transition from teaching to the cannabis industry has been eye-opening. Read about what I’ve learned so far.
This past month represents the “holiday season” in cannabis. Interfacing with operators across cannabis prepping for and dealing with 420, Hall of Flowers, deal making and general survival that is the Cannabis industry was intense.
Every now and then, time slows and seems to hover around a seemingly insignificant moment. Later, looking back, you realize why that seemingly insignificant moment needed to become a part of you. As small as it may have seemed at the time, it’s those finite moments that end up defining the most substantial pieces of you.
Imagine for a moment that you’re wearing scrubs. You’re relatively fit, but, surprisingly, you’re in the midst of being prepped and outfitted for major surgery. Surgery that could potentially have major implications for the rest of your days.

