Canopy Growth Corp (WEED)

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.Bruce Linton: ‘I’ve gone from high-tech to dot-com to infrastructure to cannabis’


I got into this business [I'm in now] after reading a newspaper article that said the police chiefs of Canada think their membership shouldn't enforce the laws as they relate to marijuana because they're unclear. I started poking around. I thought, 'When in my life am I going to see a supply chain for something [that] quite a lot of people need and want and like, created by a government action?' I went around asking people if they wanted to start this one with me.

The first four said 'Are you crazy?' I thought, that's terrific. That means there will be even fewer credible people that want to start them because the ones I spoke to think it's horrible, not because of the business, but because of the reputational risk. I thought, 'If you sit around and do nothing, isn't that also reputationally bad?'


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