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In this photo taken Friday, Dec. 20, 2013, a visitor rolls a marijuana joint in coffee shop Mississippi in Maastricht, southern Netherlands. While several U.S. states have moved to legalize the sale of marijuana, the Netherlands is going in the opposite direction, clamping down on its famed tolerance policy toward weed. In Maastricht, attempts to ban foreigners from buying weed have led to a resurgence of stre

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More than a dozen Colorado companies in the marijuana industry will take part in a job fair to be held Thursday in Denver,

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The magazine calls "CannaSearch" a first-of-its-kind event that aims to link job candidates with openings in the marijuana industry.

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Participating cannabusinesses looking to hire include medical marijuana dispensaries such as Walking Raven, the online school Cannabis Hemp Academy, an online school, and My 420 Tours, which runs marijuana-themed adventure tours in Colorado and cannabis growing and cooking classes. The positions that companies want to fill range from tour guides to graphic designers to web developers, as well as retail employees and "budtenders" in recreational pot stores and lab workers operating behind the scenes.

Oregonian reporter Katherine Driessen

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-- Noelle Crombie