As the marijuana industry expands, the financial opportunity the market can offerinvestors like Peter Thiel and big corporations like Microsoft gets a little more apparent. This week, thousands of people and hundreds of businesses will descend upon Oakland, California, for the third-annual National Cannabis Industry Association Business Summit and Expo.

The event, hosted by the industry group at the Oakland Marriott City Center, will feature keynote speeches and workshops by politicians like Gavin Newsom, the lieutenant governor of California, veteran entrepreneurs like Steve DeAngelo, the co-founder of Harborside, one of the largest dispensaries in the U.S., and policy seminars held by lawyers like Bob Hoban, who helped Colorado’s first dispensaries open up legally. Entrepreneurs and investors looking to get into the game, which is a $40 billion nation-wide market, will have the opportunity to learn from people who have been doing it for years.

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