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The Future of Weed

44 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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Denver becomes the film's case study for what happens when a drug goes legal and meets venture capital. Motherboard's crew visits the entrepreneurs building what they call the Silicon Valley of weed: grow-light engineers, seed-to-sale tracking software developers, and vape and dab-rig manufacturers all racing to professionalize a plant that spent decades as contraband. Interviews cover the money pouring into the industry and the awkward science underneath it, since cannabis strains have never been through the kind of standardized testing that other consumer products require, leaving growers and regulators guessing at potency and effects. The film also stops at a dab bar, where flash-vaporized cannabis concentrate delivers a far stronger hit than smoked flower, and treats it as a preview of where the industry's technology is heading. Rather than debating whether legalization was right, the film stays with the practical mess of turning a black-market crop into a taxed, tested, branded product, and lets the entrepreneurs' confidence sit next to the field's actual scientific uncertainty.

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Runtime compared with the other 625 Business & Economics films
Runtime44 m
Compared with Business & EconomicsShorter than 56%