Leslie Bosckor searches for gold in NY pot

Leslie Bosckor, co-founder of Nevada Cannabis Industry Association, is creating a similar association in New York.

Leslie Bosckor (pronounced "bosscore"), investment banker turned canna-businessman, holds guru status for many looking to get into the growing sector of legal marijuana. For four years, the native New Yorker has lived in Nevada, where he has co-founded the Nevada Cannabis Industry Association and helped 15 organizations successfully apply for marijuana distribution licenses. In New York, he's creating a cannabis industry association and a hedge fund.

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What is lacking in the industry?

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The industry is at such an early stage, there is opportunity in every sector of it, even technology. I just had a meeting with a tech company named PotBiotics. They're using an EEG to record brain activity in real detail while somebody is using different strains of cannabis. The goal is to create a library of data of people

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