[aridbud]

What are the requirements to be considered a Colorado citizen?

Probably a sustainable job, payment on utilities for 3 month....that sort of thing.

Knew a guy that was making $18 an hr. as landscape foreman moving from FLA to CO. He's now working for $8 an hr. busting ass at a landscape company as a day laborer. From foreman to worker-be.....He was my neighbor this spring.

Make sure you have enough $$ to get to CO and $$ to be able to move. Jobs are not that plentiful in CO unless a tradesperson, a gov't job....as others have mentioned to you.

Your track record will set you back. Enough said....won't mention again.

[ThePhiloStoned]

Originally Posted by aridbud

Your track record will set you back. Enough said....won't mention again.

Yeah, but then again it sets me back pretty hard in Florida too...having priors in Florida makes you pretty much unemployable.

[ThePhiloStoned]

Hopefully my wife, a cosmetologist, won't have a problem finding work as well...her record is clean as a whistle, btw.

[who dat is]

I was recently thinking about jumping ship from what I'm currently doing and trying to make it "in the industry" I was dissuaded by many, some strangers with MMJ jobs, some people here on the boards whom I look up to, and also from Scott of Rare Dankness when I saw him do a speech recently. I also heard good things from a few people so it's not a hollow attempt. I'll relay the advice I heard here,

"The Industry" is much broader than just the government MMJ and recreational aspect. It's important to stay unique and creative with how you fit in to the grand scheme of things. Most importantly, find your niche and be good at it.

I too read your getting in trouble again thread. I think getting a badged job and housing would be a stretch for you without first being here for a bit and being established. I won't tell you to not move out here but just know that it is hard flying blind coming out here. I have some buddies that are moving back east because they aren't finding enough work and the housing market in Denver right now is laughable. Real estate people have lines of prospective tenants where they want all kinds of references, 1st last and security deposit. It's not even a question of if you have your shit together and how you look on paper because there are already hordes of people looking for good housing.

Good luck and all the best

[ThePhiloStoned]

Nice advice...I don't know where I want to be involved in the industry per se, but I do know I want to use Colorado as a building block to getting involved in the industry as a whole at-large...worldwide. Not just in CO, I'm an entrepreneur at heart, always have been.

[MrBelvedere]

The best way for people with priors who are "not employable" is to start your own small business and build up slowly while you working minimum-wage jobs. That's what I did and it definitely worked out great. If you own your own company, there's no background checks and that's what every entrepreneur should do anyways. Start some kind of business in Florida so you learn the ropes of starting up and running a business and getting customers etc. customers can be individuals or other companies who want to subcontract their work out. And then if you ever decide to move you have some experience running your own business. Once you start doing good and getting a lot of business, you will never ever want to work for somebody else again. Good luck.

https://sunbiz.org/startbus.html

[oti$]

Maybe you could get a job managing markets or whatever you said your job in Fla is, or the company you work for now could transfer you to co or some other legal state. This way you could be employed while working on breaking into the industry. Also, it would probably be smarter to go to a state on the cusp of legalization where the scene isn't already saturated with people trying to do what you are doing. You have to take in to consideration the fact that there are throngs of citizens in the state already wanting these canna-jobs as well as tons of people just like you arriving daily. I'm toying with the idea of moving to Oregon, but I have a solid lead in that state. However, I'm more inclined to stay where I am and ride out the black market as long as it pays as well as it does and invest in some kind of business that will continue to pay in the long run; because this gravy train with biscuit wheels isn't going to last much longer. Once fully legal, big business and politics will make it that much more difficult for Joe schmoe to make a living in the industry. Good luck! I would try to get out of Fla regardless

[stoned-trout]

co would be the last mj state I would move to,,, any others first...yeehaw... I left florida and moved to cali just before med mj passed... I gambled and was right..

[trichrider]

https://www.colorado.gov/pacific/enf...na-enforcement

pdf on this site states explicitly what is required.
proof of residency of two years...

https://www.colorado.gov/pacific/dmv/node/44456/

good luck.

[ThePhiloStoned]

Originally Posted by oti$

Maybe you could get a job managing markets or whatever you said your job in Fla is, or the company you work for now could transfer you to co or some other legal state.

I wish I work for a private franchise of Liberty Tax Service that only has a location in Lakeland, FL...although market manager wouldn't be bad at another company or even a cannabis company, that job just means head of marketing.