Inside America's Billion-Dollar Weed Business: The Grass is Greener

In a city with dispensaries as common as coffee shops, Denver is undoubtedly the epicenter of the legal marijuana movement. And if you’re in the business of bud, it’s a good place to be: Colorado accounted for a third of the country’s 2.7 billion dollar marijuana market last year.

But with being America’s fastest growing industry, comes growing pains. Marijuana is still illegal on the federal level, which has led to conflicting state laws, restrictive regulations, and endless problems for cash-only marijuana business owners and operators.

VICE News meets the investors cashing in on the green rush and finds out how fractured marijuana laws are causing the American market to miss out.

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  2. Billy Wagner on October 21, 2019 at 12:27 am

    With my system you can take credit cards.



  3. Jon Osterman on October 21, 2019 at 12:28 am

    So Medicine Man used a consulting firm for their entire "clean" retro fit. Something I always assumed, but which we were always told as the opposite: that The Williams brothers built it all from scratch by hand, and dude "invented" new techniques in his basement. Horse shit all alone. Like ALL of these companies, they had to be told by real operators how to do it right, and now that they have done so, they all herald their consultants expertise and work as solely their own.



  4. schakenbake90 on October 21, 2019 at 12:29 am

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  5. Desmond assiniboine on October 21, 2019 at 12:31 am

    Chase bank



  6. Jake Andrew on October 21, 2019 at 12:34 am

    Damn this industries on the rise rn, it’s gonna be hugeeee like the cigarette industry one day. Take advantage of that early so you can make millions later



  7. 1233 3 on October 21, 2019 at 12:35 am

    Im considering running for some kind of office in the future to make legalization a real thing



  8. Moto GSeven on October 21, 2019 at 12:35 am

    We need investors to begin this multimillion-dollar adventure in Oklahoma



  9. Anonymous on October 21, 2019 at 12:37 am

    Herb is the healing of the nation



  10. Hector Rodriguez on October 21, 2019 at 12:40 am

    I just want the CBD but that shit costs too much. People over hyping it made the price rise up even more.



  11. Rick James on October 21, 2019 at 12:42 am

    Nothing like starting a buisness with mommy’s money



  12. Willz __ on October 21, 2019 at 12:43 am

    Fucking big pharmaceutical industries…



  13. Andrew Glendenning on October 21, 2019 at 12:44 am

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  14. K.G.B on October 21, 2019 at 12:45 am

    weed should be aloud not fentnyl or heroin or coke



  15. bouyant on October 21, 2019 at 12:45 am

    CALLING IT CANNABIS HELPS TO DEMYSTIFY & LEGITIFY..



  16. Jon Osterman on October 21, 2019 at 12:48 am

    AB INBEV and Tobacco companies are now getting involved in Canada. Canopy and AB INBEV think they can own the world. But all they know how to do is pump out mediocre flowers for dirt cheap, and virtually nothing else. Take DNA genetics and shove it up your ass. You want real competition? Wait til your artificially restricted market place vanishes and you have to contend with US interstate commerce, then we will see just how many people want to buy your trash over growing their own or supporting a smaller operator.

    I hope you all choke on it, you billionare fucks.



  17. Khanh Le on October 21, 2019 at 12:48 am

    I really want to see firsthand what is happening in the paradise country of my friends who love America



  18. Katerina Patiniotis on October 21, 2019 at 12:52 am

    Vice ignorant "journalists" do a proper research before you post your propaganda video. Medical cannabis is not the common marijuana or "buuud" as you call it on the video, the type that makes you drugged up and stoned.
    It has medicinal properties without getting "high" and "stoned". Even Olivia Newton John is an active advocate for medicinal cannabis. Stupid propaganda saboteurs.



  19. Brendon Phillips on October 21, 2019 at 12:53 am

    Jesus of Nazareth is The LORD



  20. Geno Smith on October 21, 2019 at 12:53 am

    Don’t let Trump introduce this..



  21. Jon Osterman on October 21, 2019 at 12:54 am

    This industry is a clear example of how the Gate Keepers of wealth and power do not ever want to allow in people who they think do not belong. So, blacks, hispanics, women, or anyone who they think inferior, basically anyone poor.

    I am sure so many people here know what if feels like to wondering if you are not getting any call backs because your last name is hispanic, or your first name is not a traditional name.



  22. Thomas Manzitti on October 21, 2019 at 12:55 am

    WP get RICH while NWP languish in Corporate Prisons…FTS!!!



  23. topgan isme on October 21, 2019 at 12:56 am

    legalization weed around the world please



  24. Staying Lit 420 on October 21, 2019 at 12:57 am

    Shit weed



  25. Joe Smartballs on October 21, 2019 at 12:58 am

    No marijuana business is not a level playing field. Towns zone a limit of stores, and only license locals they know. One county I know of has 5 stores max. So there is no competition. Monopolies is what it is.



  26. Gary Prather on October 21, 2019 at 12:58 am

    The legal weed looks fantastic, but I feel it is weaker then some that I got from my guy. I know they say it’s stronger but it doesn’t feel like it. I need some seeds for some good weed that will get you high. Legal weed doesn’t have seeds, it seems.



  27. JayJay on October 21, 2019 at 12:58 am

    And now 2019 it is 100 % LEGAL NOW for every resident of Canada!!!



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  29. californyeah on October 21, 2019 at 1:04 am

    6:45
    Never honest enough to adress the Mammoth in the porcelain room; racists "laws" and "regulations" made to profits white people and inaccessible to African Americans whom are still treated like criminals.., incarcerated, or shot to death..!!



  30. GWB on October 21, 2019 at 1:04 am

    The legalization of marijuana has created a need for specialized security professionals. http://physicalsecurityonline.com/opportunities-for-security-professionals-grow-with-legalized-marijuana/



  31. Michael Hartman on October 21, 2019 at 1:05 am

    all about the taxing of it.. every single thing you own had tax on it at one point or another, period. weed can be grown in the comfort of your home without anyone knowing and it being taxed. when something is worth any decent value the government has to get theirs, regardless of peoples health or the death of kids. The government wants to be that mob boss offering its protection for a cut of your money and weed is just another one they want to make into a little pill you can take that’s taxed and made to there liking for there control over it



  32. munch on October 21, 2019 at 1:06 am

    We paying to kill ourselves while they get rich how that works



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  34. Mark Rigsby on October 21, 2019 at 1:08 am

    Saturation, is the issue



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  38. Joseph Carroll on October 21, 2019 at 1:12 am

    And by the way this documentary is propaganda saying that we need government-run facilities…it’s fucking sick or just take the power from the people… We don’t need to deal with any of these banks



  39. chief lucifer74 on October 21, 2019 at 1:12 am

    4/20 also hitler’s birthday.



  40. d walker on October 21, 2019 at 1:13 am

    Giggling Capitalists. Your shit is over priced. And all this hype is bullshit.



  41. ELRYANK on October 21, 2019 at 1:14 am

    Alfalfa is great for you, are you kidding me?!



  42. Diego Joel on October 21, 2019 at 1:15 am

    Weed is life



  43. K Kancer on October 21, 2019 at 1:15 am

    There are no medicinal properties in alfalfa?!

    So the only plant your body can work medicinally in cannabis? This is insulting for all the ancestors that were just simply living while the herb was around legal or not legal.



  44. Amantle Marshall Mogapi on October 21, 2019 at 1:18 am

    just live it illegal…because only rich and wealthy are going to benefit most when its legalised



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  46. Little Brother on October 21, 2019 at 1:19 am

    NOW LETS KEEP KRATOM LEGAL



  47. headz88 on October 21, 2019 at 1:23 am

    weed from america looks so trashy hahaha and im from the netherlands one of the best weed growing countrys in the world 😉



  48. Zoe Bueche on October 21, 2019 at 1:23 am

    Is win win perhaps ✨✨✨✨



  49. Joseph Carroll on October 21, 2019 at 1:23 am

    We don’t want massive government-run facilities…. we want to grow our own, we want mom and pop shops, we want smaller businesses that the everyday average Joe can benefit from and get into.. all of the farmers that depend on this for their livelihood are now going to go because everyone is gone else with these massive government drug dens where they are controlling what is going to our bodies, they’re growing with chemicals and labeling it organic.. Monsanto and these massive government-operated facilities go hand-in-hand….they are doing it so they can control what we consume..We need them to make it illegal for governments to grow this product that is for people…



  50. Raounak Mishrra on October 21, 2019 at 1:24 am

    These stupids illegalised it in India in 1985 and now using themselves.