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Weed Entrepreneur Dreams Up a 100-Story Skyscraper to Grow Food

Submitted by Marijuana News on Thu, 01/19/2017 - 08:24

According to Rick Byrd, the future of farming is tall, dirtless and local.

Byrd’s vision of skyscraper farms to feed city dwellers begins with a much different kind of crop: marijuana.

Rick Byrd
Photographer: Ben Draper via Rick Byrd

The 45-year-old is chief executive officer and founder of Pure Agrobusiness Inc., a company that sells equipment to grow legal cannabis, a market worth $6 billion in 2016 and expected to reach $50 billion by 2026, according to Cowen & Co.

Because cannabis has higher profit margins than food, and pot is mostly grown inside, Byrd said he hopes the innovations perfected by PureAgro, with the help of customer feedback, could one day revolutionize food production. It’s just a question of how much it...

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