What cannabis legislation can teach us about foreign direct investment (Part 1)

What cannabis legislation can teach us about foreign direct investment (Part 1)

More often than not, when you hear the vox populi describe the intrinsic issues and drawbacks of foreign direct investment and development, they note among other things that the investors come in without capital, they receive large tracts of prime property which displaces portions of the population and local industry. They are averse to environmental considerations and receive extensively long leases of prime state assets and property. They also…