Canadian Cannabis Conference 2015: Building the Marijuana Industry in Canada

By Leigh Coulter, GGS Structures Inc.

Yesterday at the Trump Hotel and Towers in downtown Toronto, Jacobs Securities hosted the Canadian Cannabis Conference to bring investors and cannabis businesses together. If there was anyone in the room with any doubt of the significance of the Canadian cannabis industry it was put to rest when, Richard Carleton, CEO of the Canadian Securities Exchange ( CSE ) admitted that the local joke that he is the President and CEO of the “Marijuana Business Exchange” is not far from the truth with 21% of the CSE market value being in the cannabis sector.

The day was organized such that the leaders of several publicly traded licensed producers (LPs) as well as a few private LPs and a couple other businesses within the cannabis industry spoke in panels of three or four at a time. For the producers there were two common themes all...

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