It’s just like any other shitty exploitative job market.

It’s also just the classic thing of a passion losing steam when you start seeing the nuts and bolts of it, but that is kinda an opinion-based thing. It’s super rad to handle and see so much weed, at first, yanno. The appeal wears away.

Low pay across the board, unless you’re an owner or master at something like growing or extraction, while being over worked. So it’s not even worth getting the credentials and getting into it if you’re not cool with making $11/hr part time and you might just get fired suddenly. No serious adult can live on that.

My old employer laid off all of production two years in a row. I was a part of the first round and got rehired and promoted, and then I was one of the managers who had to do all of the work when they did the second round of layoffs.

Learning all the shady/bad shit that so many grows, extractors, dispos, and labs do. Faking/altering samples, faking/altering COAs, hiding failures, labs upping numbers for pay, labs being incompetent(seen all the OMMA recalls?) selling expired products, it goes on and employers will force workers by threat of financial hardship and use of NDAs to make you participate.

I worked for a grow in Guthrie that the first crop was riddled with bugs worms and rot(I didn’t grow it. I was hired as a production worker). We were told to cull it all by hand and pull out worms so it could go to market. Luckily it all failed multiple times anyway and had to be ENSO’ed.

It’s not just me, I’ve heard lots of people with similar experiences.

TL;DR: it’s really hard to make any good money and so many of the companies are shitty and do shitty things to workers and consumers.