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#5 Higher Purpose Cannabis

Higher Purpose Cannabis, based in Port Hueneme, Calif., has built a cooperative culture around the healing properties of cannabis.


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Benefits:

  • After 60 days of employment, full-time and part-time employees are eligible to receive medical, dental and vision coverage from HPC, which pays 50% of premium costs for employees and their dependents.
  • After 90 days of employment, employees are eligible for a company retirement plan to which HPC offers a 50% match.
  • The dispensary’s workforce development program begins with 60 hours of training during the employee onboarding process and ongoing educational exposure to all brands sold in-store.
  • HPC offers tuition reimbursement for employees’ outside education.

Additional Information:

  • HPC offers a compassionate discount program for medical cannabis patients confronting end-of-life care or critical disease care.
  • The company awards “Employee of the Month” recognition, along with holiday parties and employee appreciation days.
  • Management encourages each employee to commit to at least 10 hours per year of volunteer time to community organizations of their choice, whether food share groups, the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, or various local park and beach cleanups.
  • 75% of the company’s leadership team is female.
  • HPC offers diversity and inclusion training for all employees to build diversity awareness in the staff as part of its retention efforts, and to contribute to a more productive workplace.
  • It also leverages U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs resources, such as the Transition Assistance Program (TAP), to find and hire qualified veteran candidates, and creates recruiting programs in which veteran employees assist in recruiting prospective veteran employees.
  • In late January, the HPC management team brought Tommy Chong to the dispensary for a visit with the staff.

From the CEO:

“There's really a camaraderie here, which is very palpable when you walk in,” says CEO Beth Thuna.

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