(Bloomberg) -- A marijuana dispensary opening near your house? Relax.

In states where marijuana is legal in some form, the majority of respondents saw no change in residential property values near dispensaries, according to a survey by the National Association of Realtors released on Tuesday. With over half of states having legalized the drug for medical use and about a dozen that have legalized recreational use, the report analyzes how the budding industry affects renters, home buyers and sellers.

For landlords, this means new challenges. Cannabis is an all-cash business, and legal cannabis supports about 243,700 full-time-equivalent jobs, according to a report by Leafly. Cannabis dispensaries often pay their employees in cash because most banks shy away from working with the federally illegal industry.

In states where marijuana is only legal for medical purposes, 31% of respondents said most landlords will take cash and not ask where it comes from. On the flip side, 18% of landlords in those same states said most will not take cash from marijuana proceeds for rent at all.

About half of the respondents in states where only prescription marijuana was legal or where both recreational and medical have been legalized since 2016 had no difficulty leasing a property after the growth of cannabis on that property.

While most respondents in states where marijuana had recently been legalized had never tried to sell a house used for growing marijuana, about a quarter of residential members in states that legalized recreational use before 2016 had sold such a property in the past.

The survey was sent through email in September and included responses from 3,673 NAR members.

--With assistance from Katia Dmitrieva and Kristine Owram.

To contact the reporter on this story: Reade Pickert in Washington at epickert@bloomberg.net

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