Inside America's Billion-Dollar Weed Business: The Grass is Greener
In a city with dispensaries as common as coffee shops, Denver is undoubtedly the epicenter of the legal marijuana movement. And if you’re in the business of bud, it’s a good place to be: Colorado accounted for a third of the country’s 2.7 billion dollar marijuana market last year. But with being America’s fastest growing industry, comes growing pains. Marijuana is still illegal on the federal level, which has led to conflicting state laws, restrictive regulations, and endless problems for cash-only marijuana business owners and operators. VICE News meets the investors cashing in on the green rush and finds out how fractured marijuana laws are causing the American market to miss out. Watch "Amsterdam's War on Weed” - http://bit.ly/1dekkrJ Medical Marijuana Patients Are Getting Fired — And There’s Not Much They Can Do About It - http://bit.ly/1JgWUk1 Medical Marijuana Laws Don't Cause Teens to Start Smoking Pot, Study Finds - http://bit.ly/1e1XJ2l Subscribe to VICE News here: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-VICE-News Check out VICE News for more: http://vicenews.com Follow VICE News here: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/vicenews Twitter: https://twitter.com/vicenews Tumblr: http://vicenews.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/vicenews More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideos
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very well done documentary. so unlike vice
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weed kills
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WTF is with this v/o and "actress". She sounds fucking autistic. Is she mentally challenged? I seriously can't tell...
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Hopefully California can learn from the growing pains of Coloardo. With a much larger population and economy, I hope the business can thrive despite the federal regulations and hiccups
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every video i see a white guy who i never heard of in all the years i been smoking and doing research for the last 20 years gets all the licensing and all the minoritys that got arrested for it cant own or get licensing why???
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These people know what they are doing. The raise the potency of the weed. Then they raise the price of the weed because it's more potent. Gets just as bad on the street. This is going for high dollar on the street too. This is part of the other things growing. Removing middle class again. 2 level. Upper & Lower.
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According to the plans of the American elite, there is a need to euthanize most of humanity until the population naturally decreases to 1-2 billion people. There is no other “quiet” means. Thus, the decision was made on a global scale to make “soft” drugs legal and to market them. The tobacco companies were forced to keep quiet. And the same order was given to the media. The negative attitude concerning tobacco and the positive attitude towards marijuana is spreading from the US to the rest of the world
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I don't want to smoke it. I want to use it for medical purposes!! The cannabis oil. This is what I am interested in.
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I truly never understood the fascination for marihuana. I think it's so hyped up that everybody just pretends it's so awesome but in fact it's not. Just afraid to admit it, because then you're not 'cool'. On a side note, I like it how everybody is so grown and dressed up at these marihuana conferences. It's all big business.
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legalize!!!
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The country could learn a lot from Colorado
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I love first world problems. Telling someone how it sucks I have this mountain of cash and it's hard to pay for things with it.
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Its sad that even though POC are persecuted way more for weed (and all drugs), the new weed business appears pretty much 100% white.
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Fuck the Banks do it with Bitcoins and Cash for me it works fine.
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Just Legalize it please
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MY GOD IM SO IN LOVE WITH HER!! NAME!!!??
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She's so distracting
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It seems the only tool that our Government is lacking is the one that allows (it/them/us) to say, "Oh, sorry we were wrong . . . for about a hundred years . . . LOL . We can do this, pressure the feds to get with the (hi) times.
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They want there money
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Quem dera fosse assim no Brasil !!
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