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Highlights from MJBizCon

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4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2019

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

MJBizCon, the biggest cannabis conference in the world, took place last week in Las Vegas. Emily Flippen returns from the event to share the current state of the business, the most interesting highlights, the strangest thing she saw, and the most memorable meal she had.

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It's Monday, December 16th.

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Welcome to Market Foolery.

0:22.0

I'm Chris Hill with me in studio today. She's back

0:25.6

from a week away from Fool HQ. It's Emily Flipping. Thanks for being here.

0:28.8

Hey, thanks for having me. So last week, 40,000 people from 75 countries descended upon Las Vegas for M.J.

0:38.2

Bizcon, the biggest Cannabis Conference in the world. You were one of them. There were a few people from

0:43.8

full headquarters who went. Let's start with this. What's your headline for

0:48.4

this year's M.J. Biscon? Yeah, I mean, look, it doubled in size year over year.

0:55.0

So part of me wants to say the headlines, something like Cowboys put on suits.

0:59.0

You know, it's still the Wild Wild West in cannabis.

1:02.0

And the reason why that analogy is top of head is because in

1:05.0

addition to M.J. Biscan happening in Las Vegas and the Las Vegas Conference Center

1:08.9

there was also I think was the National Rodeo Convention happening in the same center next door and there

1:15.0

was something just so appropriate about that to me.

1:18.8

Because in a lot of ways the people we saw at MJBISCon this year, you know, they're very different than the people we saw last year.

1:25.4

And they're still new, they're still entrepreneurs, they're still just getting started in a really untrecht

1:31.4

industry, but at the same time they're making a business out of it and so

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