Entrepreneurs Find Gold in Legal Marijuana Market
David Umeh's rented SUV yanked to a halt in front of the glass-and-steel facade of CityCenterDC, glitzy home to Gucci and Dior and Hermes and the next customer of the marijuana revolution.
A young woman slid out the passenger side and strode up to a man still dressed in the sharp gray suit of a Washington DC nine-to-fiver waiting outside the centre's tony apartment building. He grinned as she handed him a bottle of apple juice with lemon and mint, for which he had shelled out upwards of $US55 ($A72). "Fresh-pressed," she told him, sticking to the script that Umeh had taught her.
And then she slipped him the green paper sack that held what the man had probably really wanted all along: a few pungent grams of District-grown bud, a "gift" from Umeh's company, HighSpeed, for his patronage.
You know, thanks for being a loyal customer and paying $55 for...
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