2016's Fort Worth Marijuana Expo Shows Why 'the Green Rush' Is the Next Huge Wave in Pop Culture

This past weekend, a marijuana expo came to Fort Worth, Texas. Many of the 6,000 attendees of the Fort Worth expo were deeply moved by some of the speakers there, and experts agree that events like this signal that “The Green Rush,” the name being given to the impending nationwide legalization of recreational pot, is coming.

As the Dallas Morning News points out, you would have been called crazy if you had proposed a pot convention in Fort Worth ten years ago. The reason is that Fort Worth is a conservative town in an even more conservative state, and insistence on legalizing marijuana was, until fairly recently, a concept not welcome in even the more progressive areas of the country.

Nowadays, though, publicly supporting recreational marijuana legalization is basically at the forefront of pop culture. Because of that fact, thousands of people from Fort Worth and the surrounding area happily flocked...

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