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Has anyone figured out how one could get exposure to this in the stock market? Any other way to legally invest in this boom?

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If you're an accredited investor in the US, you could consider investing in a number of cannabis-focused hedge funds, private equity funds, and venture capital funds that have sprung up recently.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/debraborchardt/2015/05/19/cannab...

http://poseidonassetmanagement.com/

http://www.privateerholdings.com/about/

At the moment these businesses in the USA can't even use the banks. There are some large growers in Canada that are listed on the TSX. Aphria Inc., Mettrum Health Corp., Canopy Growth Corp., which owns two of Canada’s biggest licensed marijuana producers, Tweed and Bedrocan.

It seems growers who supply the retail outlets will be the way to go.

Most of the growth pre-legalization at a federal level won't be at these companies though, right? There's no way these guys can be supplying the markets in WA/OR/CO/AK because they'd need to transport a lot of product over national borders and would have to deal with federal border agents. Right?

I am seeking small initial investment to scale from 1 to 16x its size current to-be licensed growers/producers operation. Please contact me.

Unfortunately I will assume the derivatives that are already taking advantage will make it an average bet at best.

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