Women Grabbing Picks and Shovels in the Cannabis Gold Rush

Anyone with a modicum of perspective on the burgeoning cannabis business agrees that in years ahead, hindsight will look at these days like the era before the Gold Rush. Whereas the Gold Rush eventually peaked and dissipated, it seems unlikely that the cannabis industry will take that trajectory. But in both cases, the entrepreneurs early into the market will likely be the great success stories. The wild west businessmen who supplied the picks, shovels and dungarees to the gold rush prospectors did quite well. And the modern day equivalent is often an entrepreneur from the distaff side.

 

Marijuana plants grow in a greenhouse at the Los Suenos Farms facility in Avondale, Colorado, U.S., on Thursday, Feb. 25, 2016. About 938 dispensaries, which outnumber Starbucks in Colorado, in 2015 yielded $135 million in state taxes and fees, 44 percent

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