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Looking to Make More Green as a Freelancer?
The cannabis and CBD niches should be on your radar
There is no one way to be a successful freelancer. But, one skill that anyone can benefit from is flexibility.
The kinds of projects businesses need are always in flux. While the conventional wisdom is that specialists make more money than generalists, you also need to have more than one niche to protect yourself from downturns in one segment of the economy.
If you pay attention to market trends and are flexible, you can move into rapidly growing niches and make a lot of extra money.
Two industries that are growing, even as other parts of the economy are slowing down, are the cannabis and CBD industries.
Why Cannabis and CBD are Hot
In Canada and the United States, cannabis is undergoing a legal revolution. Marijuana is being legalized and decriminalized in several cities and states. On the federal level in the United States, marijuana is still illegal, but thanks to the 2018 Farm Bill, hemp is legal to grow, sell, and distribute. This includes products derived from the hemp such as CBD oil.
Hemp is a cannabis plant that is related to marijuana, but it has much lower levels of THC. THC is the compound that gets you…
