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Big weed, an entrepreneur's high-stakes adventures in the budding legal marijuana business, Christian Hageseth with Joseph D'Agnese

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-234) and index

index present

non fiction

Big weed

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Christian Hageseth with Joseph D'Agnese

an entrepreneur's high-stakes adventures in the budding legal marijuana business

Marijuana legalization is the hottest story in the US today. 22 states have authorized sales in some form. Denver has more legal marijuana dispensaries than Starbucks franchises. And like the early days of gourmet coffee chains, the rules and players are being established on the fly. Christian Hageseth is one face of the revolution -- an entrepreneur and father of three who worked in the white-collar professional world for 20 years before opening his first dispensary. The founder and chairman of Green Man Cannabis, the fastest-growing legalized marijuana company in the country, he's the perfect tour guide through the wild frontier, where police hardly know what laws to enforce, or parents what to tell their kids. He paints a colorful picture not only of how he got into the business, but of the big interests that are eager to do the same -- namely Philip Morris, Monsanto and a who's who of Big Pharma. He predicts a future where the marijuana market splits in two: the high-end, artisanal market, supplied by individual growers and small farms, and the mass market, covered by the cigarette giants and anyone bold enough to compete with them

Brave new world -- My education -- First grow, first blood -- The beauty of failure -- Don't bank on it -- The haze of paranoia -- Seed to sale to bust -- The cannabis ranch -- Family: Hegeseth; genus: Cannabis -- Best in show -- Marijuana's Mecca -- Marijuana on the ballot -- Looking for the win-win -- Investors -- The new marijuana economy -- The cannabis ranch