I'm a California native who's seen marijuana go from back-alley weed deals to a new legal system with billion-dollar IPOs on Nasdaq. I cover worldwide trends of cannabis entrepreneurs, people building the backbone of this new sector with innovative products and services. I'm also an active participant in the pot economy and co-founder of Panther Papers, featuring specialty designed marijuana rolling papers. My writing has spanned the globe from interviews with cannabis sellers at Denmark’s Freetown Christiania—an illegal but tolerated pot bazaar in Copenhagen—to a new wave of Kentucky farmers whose crops are steadily migrating from tobacco to cannabis in the form of recently legal hemp. I’m excited to see cannabis treated no differently from any other commodity with the potential to drive widespread economic growth.