Headquarters Partners with High Times to Help Cannabis Operators Staff Back-Office Roles

We're now featured on High Times for cannabis staffing.

High Times has been the reference point for cannabis culture and industry coverage for over 50 years. As of this month, cannabis operators browsing hightimes.com can find Headquarters on a dedicated staffing page, connecting them directly to our back-office staffing services.

For us, it's a straightforward signal: the industry's most recognized media brand chose to point its audience toward Headquarters when the topic is staffing the roles that keep cannabis businesses running.

Why Back-Office Staffing, and Why Now

Most cannabis staffing conversations focus on the front of the house - budtenders, trimmers, delivery drivers. The harder problem sits behind the counter: accountants who understand 280E, AR specialists who can chase invoices in a market where credit terms routinely stretch past 60 days, inventory and compliance staff who can reconcile METRC against the POS without creating audit exposure.

These roles are difficult to fill for structural reasons:

• Cannabis experience is scarce. A bookkeeper who has never dealt with 280E or state-mandated seed-to-sale reporting has a steep, expensive learning curve.
• Margins are compressed. With wholesale prices falling in most mature markets, operators can't carry bloated G&A. Full-time hires for part-time workloads don't pencil out.
• Turnover is costly in ways that don't show up on the P&L. A departing controller mid-audit or an AR lead leaving with collections knowledge in their head sets an operator back months.

That's the gap Headquarters fills - trained, cannabis-specific back-office talent for accounting, AR management, inventory operations, and administrative functions, without the overhead of building those teams in-house.

What It Means for Operators

If you're an operator, the practical takeaway is simple: the back-office talent problem is common enough, and painful enough, that High Times decided its audience needed a dedicated resource for it. Whether you find us through their page or ours, the offering is the same - cannabis-literate staffing for the functions where generic hires fail.

We're proud of the association. High Times has outlasted nearly every institution in this industry. Being their featured staffing partner puts Headquarters in front of the operators we're built to serve, at the moment they're looking for exactly what we do.