Investing in Marijuana MicroCap Stocks

In the nine months leading up to their peak in March 2014, marijuana stocks rose over 6 fold in value, fueled by the speculative frenzy that followed marijuana’s legalization in Colorado and Washington and the promises of high returns from a nascent industry that is predicted to grow by the most conservative estimates to a $10 billion plus market in the next 4 years and experience an astonishing compounded annual growth rate of 40%.

Micro-cap companies, undeterred by the ongoing federal ban on cannabis, hurried into the space to provide growers, processors and dispensaries with the services and technologies necessary to create a legitimate infrastructure and the controls necessary onto which the industry as a whole could be developed. By March 2014, the marijuana index had listed 45 publicly traded companies in the marijuana space that were reaching unprecedented valuations, soaring briefly beyond $6 billion.

Nine months later, prices had...

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