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Trees CEO Marshall Hayner: "Cannabis will be a bigger industry than big tobacco... And It needs Bitcoin"

The San Francisco-based dispensary, Trees, wants to hook you up with a cannabis kit, so all of your smoking needs are taken care of in one place. The company acknowledges that - with technology like vaporizers, dabs, and so on, cannabis has become pretty complex (especially after a dome straight to the head). So for that reason, Trees stocks the latest tech and glassware for your blazing pleasure and packages it in a convenient form. Medicinal use of cannabis in California has been legal since 1996. While in Colorado and Washington cannabis is recreational, in California, the legalization....


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