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The Dankest Wares, Tech, and Ganjapreneurs We Found at Cannabis World Congress

Submitted by Marijuana News on Wed, 06/22/2016 - 08:45

Walking into a cannabis show in New York City is a perfect metaphor for how mainstream America approaches weed culture right now. The Cannabis World Congress expo floor at the Javits Center was overloaded with booths sporting flea market-style displays of edibles, extracts, and oils, plenty of shiny new tech, and piles of giveaway swag in different shades of green. There were also businesses hocking every kind of service imaginable, trying to capitalize on our buzziest new billion dollar industry. Cannabis consultants, lawyers, security companies, weed universities — pick a profession and tint it leaf-green.

What you didn’t see is any actual weed. Not out in the open, anyway. Not in New York, where the newly enacted medical marijuana laws are among the strictest of the 25 legal states. Cannabis packaging startups showed off vacuum-sealed bags of spinach leaves. Decorative shrubs sat under cutting-edge grow lamps. Edibles companies arranged...

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