Jeffrey Friedland: Report From Yesterday’s Cowen’s Cannabis Colloquium in New York

I was delighted to participate in yesterday’s Cannabis Colloquium in New York, sponsored by Cowen and Company.

My panel was on U.S. policy, and I was joined on the panel by Allen St. Pierre, former Executive Director of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), and Michael Safir, Business Manager at High Times Magazine.

My book, “Marijuana: The World’s Most Misunderstood Plant,” was provided to all in attendance.

Yesterday’s event was the first cannabis event sponsored by Cowen and Company, and for that matter by any major Wall Street bank. The event was moderated by Vivien Azer, a Cowen managing director and senior research analyst who covers the beverage, tobacco and cannabis sectors. Ms. Azer is the first senior Wall Street analyst to cover the emerging cannabis sector.

Over the past few years, I’ve participated as a panelist or speaker at numerous cannabis-related events in the...

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