every state's choosing its own adventure for how to regulate and there's no central marketplace.

There's no software that's actually built for the sector and I thought,

man, this could really be something. Fast forward from 2015 to the day and now, you know,

Weed Maps is in this fantastic position. It's really cool to see.

This is the flavor. I am so excited. I have Chris Beals. He's the CEO of Weed Maps.

Talk about having a vision. You know, I, Chris, I ran Lee Steinberg Sports Entertainment

in Newport Beach, the most notable sports agency and my resume look like the other 25,000 resumes

to Lee, except for one thing. I really developed skills and knowledge in the technology field and

I just finished a symposium here at Tulane Law School about how to apply your skills and knowledge

to the industry that you want to work in and you are at the forefront of that. The vision that

you have had to had since 2015 to understand the cannabis industry and to see the opportunities

and do exist there. We were just talking about who and how, you know, come into New Orleans.

They have Caesars on on the, you know, the arena and when I was here, you couldn't even combine

gambling and sports, let alone cannabis and sports. Both are at the forefront and they're begging for

the dollars. How have you seen that evolution and when did you realize that you were onto something

as far as being a visionary and being able to get over all the resistance that existed in 2015?

Yeah. I mean, look, I just have to say this that it finally feels and then Cheryl say this

again a year from now or two years from now, but it feels like we're sort of cresting a new wave

of acceptance, legitimacy, people realizing that there's a there there. You know, that is weird

when for an industry that did roughly 25 billion last year in the U.S. that people are like, oh,

I think there might be something to that, you know, a little late, but no, look, when I first

came across the cannabis sector and weed maps in 2015, I just thought, wow, this is this is insane.

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