After New York legalized medical marijuana this summer, Ted Berndt knew he had to get to Denver, Colorado.
Berndt, who owns an agri-business park an hour's drive north of Albany, New York, realized the clock had started ticking on a so-called "green rush" for anyone planning to cash in on growing and selling the drug.
"Three days after the law passed, I hopped a plane to Denver and met with a grower," Berndt said of his trip to a marijuana summit in Colorado, where cannabis is legal under state law for medicinal and recreational use."I got there and within 10 minutes I found the CEO of the company that I want to work with," Berndt said. "I started to find out as much as I could: to be a human sponge and learn as much as possible about cultivation, security and all the other things involved in the medical marijuana business."
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