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How This Wall Street Vet Became a Billion-Dollar Cannabis Success Story

Kevin Murphy won big when he agreed to sell his cannabis company, Acreage Holdings, for billions. But he says there's still plenty of opportunity.
Source: Nicci Levy
Nicci Levy

The average cannabis consumer may not have heard of Kevin Murphy, but they’ve surely seen the headlines he’s made as the CEO of Acreage Holdings, the largest vertically integrated, multistate cannabis company in America. Last year, he got former House Speaker John Boehner to join his board of directors -- despite Boehner’s having claimed to be “unalterably opposed to the of .” Then Murphy’s company produced a cannabis Super Bowl ad; when CBS rejected it

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