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Monday, August 20, 2018 10:41:31 PM
Opportunity in an untapped industry with multi-billion-dollar potential
The demand for marijuana products is a multi-billion-dollar market that has only recently begun to become mainstream. Many challenges face the marijuana entrepreneur. Therein lies the opportunity.
Regulation and reality
Sales of marijuana on the black market topped $46.4 billion in 2016. that becomes a very conservative estimate of the size of the market in the United States. Distribution was driven underground for years by the Controlled Substance Act passed by Congress nearly 50 years ago. The favorable public opinion towards the legalization is rapidly changing the political attitude toward marijuana not only on the state level but on the federal level.
Financing and banking
As doubts remain, financing is still a challenge for this industry with banks in many states not only avoiding lending to these businesses but
also refusing deposits because of complicated FDIC requirements. Financing has been largely equity raises, vendor financing, and expensive convertible debt. However, with the legalization and subsequent public capital raises in Canada and the change in the political attitude, there has been an indication of more interest by institutional investors in providing capital to this industry and more banks are accepting deposits.
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