On hippies vs. suits in the cannabis industry

What happens when outlaw industries like marijuana go legit? We are about to find out.

As marijuana prohibition slowly but surely becomes a thing of the past, the tensions between the radical activists that started the cannabis-freedom movement and the venture capitalists that are looking to cash in on America’s No. 1 growth industry are starting to get bigger.

The biggest clash is usually about intent. To most hardcore activists, the pursuit of money without any sense of social responsibility is a futile pursuit, at best, and a venal pursuit at worst. To the suits, the idea that money isn’t the first and most important concern doesn’t even make sense. Why else would a person start a business unless it was to try to get all of the money they could possibly make by whatever legal means?

This disconnect leads to things such as the makers of Sativex (a cannabis derived medicine...

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