Matt Maurer was quoted in "Growing like weed" on the legalization of cannabis and some of the difficulties that accompany these changes. The article was published on May 17, 2017 by Listed Magazine.
Growing like weed
By: Chris Sorensen
It's official: legalized recreational cannabis is coming to Canada. An already hot market for marijuana companies is set to explode—and a horde of start-ups now face the task of becoming grown-ups in a controversial industry on a short political leash.
New York hedge fund managers pride themselves on being able to spot big moneymaking opportunities long before anyone else. But somehow they failed to notice Bruce Linton when he travelled to Manhattan three years ago to drum up interest in Tweed Marijuana, his fledgling medical cannabis business. "The best I could muster was a brief meeting in a hotel lobby bar with a guy who ran his own money," says Linton, who is now the CEO of parent Canopy Growth Corp., Canada's first medical marijuana producer with a billion-dollar-plus valuation...Read the full article at Listed Magazine.
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