Healthcare: Marijuana’s Past, Present, and Future

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🗓️ 1 August 2018

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

The budding marijuana market is already worth billions of dollars, and it’s expected to grow even more as marijuana momentum accelerates. Here’s what you should know about marijuana’s opportunity and its risks.

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0:00.0	This episode of Industry Focus is brought to you by Sinios Health, a new fully integrated
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0:13.9	shortening the distance from lab to life. To learn more, visit sinios health
0:18.3	dot com slash podcast. Welcome to Industry Focus, the podcast that dives into a different sector of the stock market every day.
0:27.0	Today is the 1st of August. It's Wednesday and we're talking health care.
0:31.0	I'm your host for seen Harjis and I'm joined by fool.com
0:34.2	contributor Todd Campbell via Skype.
0:37.1	The Motley Pool is a data-driven company
0:39.2	and we love combing through our Google Analytics data
0:42.1	to see what's getting the most traction on fool.com.
0:45.0	Well and behold, week after week, articles about investing in marijuana make the top of the list.
0:51.0	So given the hunger for content about weed, we figured we should give the subject some
0:55.6	attention here on industry focus health care. Something tells me that interest in the area is only going to
1:00.8	increase from here. What do you think, Todd? I think so, absolutely.
1:05.6	You know, I mean, I think that the interest that we're seeing today is more for its use
1:10.7	medicinally, but I think that, you know, for context just to help our listeners, I was going through
1:17.3	Christine just looking at some of the history of cannabis, and I came some kind of a little fascinating factoids that I felt
1:25.2	like our listeners could share over cocktails with their friends this weekend and impress everybody.
1:29.4	Let's hear them. All right. So did you know that they have found cannabis seeds in the graves of people in Siberia and Asia going
1:41.5	back to 500 BC? I can't believe they last that long. Right.
1:47.0	They didn't say what they did with the seeds once they found them.
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