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Home 🌿 Marijuana Business News 🌿 Out with stoners, in with suits: It’s all business at CannaCon in Seattle 🌿Out with stoners, in with suits: It’s all business at CannaCon in Seattle
Yes, a couple of exhibitors were selling pipes and bongs. And a few showgoers looked like they had dressed in the dark.
But they were a small minority at CannaCon on Thursday when the annual marijuana industry trade show opened its three-day run at Seattle’s Pier 91.
The rapidly growing and changing marijuana business is attracting big money.
Out with the stoners, in with the suits.
“Our industry is growing so amazingly fast it’s ridiculous,” said show founder Bob Smart. “When we did the first show there were three retail stores open. The second show last February there were 34. This year there’s 200.”
When CannaCon was at the Tacoma Dome in 2014 it attracted 6,000 people. This weekend Smart expects attendance to be around 15,000.
It’s not just the numbers of businesses but their quality that has changed, Smart said.
“National companies are all of a sudden getting...
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