Managing a marijuana store isn’t that different from running a Subway sandwich shop. It basically comes down to keeping track of the green.

“You have to really keep an inventory of all the lettuce that comes into your store when you’re a manager of Subway,” David Martinez, the general manager at 3D Cannabis Center in Denver and a former Subway manager, told The Huffington Post. “It’s the same thing here, you have to keep the inventory of all the marijuana that comes through the store.”

A job at a pot shop hardly fulfills some stoner fantasy out of a Cheech & Chong flick, but that hasnt stopped dozens of eager job candidates in Colorado, which legalized recreational marijuana on Jan. 1, from trying to get one. The newly launched industry is expected to add $359 million to the states economy by the end of the year, according to a report from Arcview Market Research. Some black- and grey-market jobs are turning legitimate as the underground industry legalizes, noted Jeffrey Miron, a Harvard economist who has studied the economic impacts of legalization. And employers are desperate to fill positions.

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