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From fool global headquarters, this is Motley Fool Money.

It's the Motley Fool Money Radio Show. I'm Chris Hill and joining me in studio this week from Million Dollar Portfolio Jason Moser from Hidden Gems, Abby Malon and from Supernova, David Cretzman.

Happy New Year everybody.

2018.

Here we go. It's our 2018 preview show. We're going to dig into a few stocks to watch, CEOs and more.

And as always, we'll give you an inside look at the stocks on our radar.

But David Cretzman, let's start by going a little broad.

What is an industry you're watching this year and what is your question about that industry?

I'm going with the reefer madness, Chris. I'm talking about marijuana.

And I guess the question or questions I have here first are legitimate markets forming within the marijuana space and following up from that,

are there legitimate companies emerging that can benefit from those markets?

Canada is set to legalize recreational marijuana sometime this year as possibly as soon as July.

It would be the first major country to do so. So that could really legitimize the marijuana space and give companies a legal,

legit opportunity to compete.

You are seeing some states like California now that 2018 is here with that have legalized recreational marijuana,

but there is the growing question mark with attorney general Jeff Sessions opening the door for the federal government to intervene in the states that have legalized marijuana to some capacity.

That's why my overall question here is there's clearly an opportunity here potentially multi billion or tens of billion dollars opportunity here.

But with very few legal legitimate markets, I still wonder if companies can succeed this year.

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