Strategies: Pole position in the cannabis industry

Nov 28, 2014, 3:00am PST

Malia Spencer
Staff Reporter-
Portland Business Journal

tarting a business within a highly regulated sector is tough. Starting a business in a highly regulated sector in which the rules are still being written is even more difficult.
That’s the challenge Justin Dufour faces now that Oregon voters have approved the sale and recreational use of marijuana by adults. Dufour’s company, Viridian Sciences, makes management software for businesses serving the cannabis market. Ideal clients include producers, processors, laboratories, retailers and government regulators. In early November, he debuted Viridian’s software at the Marijuana Business Conference and Expo in Las Vegas, and he’s even contemplating buying a national charter bank …

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