Steve DeAngelo, CEO of Harborside Health, recently spoke at the High NY Meetup, where he discussed the topic of corporate interests increasing their influence in the industry. DeAngelo sees it as a necessity, though earlier in his life he viewed big corporations as evil. Still, he is in no hurry to see Big Pharma or other large corporations take over the industry.
We need to make sure that we make corporate America more cannabis-like instead of making cannabis more corporate.
Read Will Yakowicz’s “Do Cannabis Entrepreneurs and Big Business Actually Need Each Other?”: http://www.inc.com/will-yakowicz/steve-deangelo-harborside-cannabis-big-business.html
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