> The people making money are the few politically well connected companies that have growers licenses and the doctors prescribing it. The grow licenses are wort

> The people making money are the few politically well connected companies that have growers licenses and the doctors prescribing it. The grow licenses are worth tens / hundreds? of millions. Honestly knowing some of the backend of a grow in a medical only state, the grows aren't where the money is. The article glances over this very quickly, but real money is in the dispensaries. (this is from a dispensary angle) > Carl Giannone, the co-founder of cannabis company Trade Roots in Massachusetts, said an eighth of an ounce used to reliably sell for $55. Now he has to price it near $40. > “And the scary part is that product that’s selling for $40, I can buy from a large wholesaler for $7.50,” he said. > “The green rush has never happened,” Luchini said. Nothing like a 533% markup.