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David: I’m David Kretzmann, here at MjBizCon and joined now by special guest, Chris Walsh, the founding editor and vice president at Marijuana Business Daily, the organization that’s putting on this event.
Chris, I figure we can jump into it, maybe you can give us some background on, who you are and how you found your way into the cannabis industry.
Chris: Sure. I think like many people in the industry, I didn’t expect to be here. And if you had told me 10 years ago this is what I’d be doing and this was an actual industry and a business opportunity, I would have laughed. I’m a traditional journalist by training and worked at mainstream newspapers on business desks and reporting on a lot of different industries. Then I moved to South Korea and lived there for two years and was an editor at a newspaper there, and came back in 2011. When I had left two years earlier, when I left Denver, there were no medical marijuana dispensaries, it wasn’t an industry. When I arrived after living in Korea, there were more dispensaries in Denver than Starbucks.