Peter Thiel becomes marijuana's first big investor

Re:Peter Thiel becomes marijuana's first big investor by arfliw on Thursday January 08, 2015 @02:40PM (#8858414)

There are public companies in the industry. All are highly risky/volatile stocks, though. Nothing like a blue chip company yet, which you could trust to steadily rise in tandem with the industry.

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Re:Peter Thiel becomes marijuana's first big investor by rmetzler on Thursday January 08, 2015 @07:22PM (#8859967)

I think there are only few labs specialized in testing THC and CBD levels yet. While it isn't very hard to grow or create other products, I don't think it's easy to compete with a service like this.

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Re:Peter Thiel becomes marijuana's first big investor by eli on Thursday January 08, 2015 @09:05PM (#8860341)

Wouldn't a huge industrial testing company eventually decide the market is big and safe enough to enter and just crush the small players on scale?

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