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Home 🌿 Marijuana Business News 🌿 Silicon Valley Sees Mega-Profits In Marijuana’s ‘Green Rush’ 🌿Silicon Valley Sees Mega-Profits In Marijuana’s ‘Green Rush’
Small Colorado Mom-and-Pop stores are at the vanguard of the nation’s newest marijuana businesses, but, while the weed marketplace might look quaint from the Rocky Mountains, Silicon Valley billionaires are preparing to swoop down and take advantage of weed’s “green rush.”
The entry of billionaires who mainly seek profits has sparked deep anger among long-term activists who have toiled for legalization in the name of personal freedom, civil rights and racial justice.
An internal split became public recently when Dan Riffle, a highly regarded federal policy staffer at the Marijuana Policy Project, publicly quit over the organization’s decision to court big corporate money.
Billionaires profiteering over marijuana doesn’t sit well with long-time activists.
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