DENVER — It looks like a boring trade show, with badge-wearing attendees and plenty of self-serve coffee machines. Except the booths advertise the "future of cannabis," a device that measures the potency of marijuana and sophisticated irrigation systems.
The marijuana industry is having its second annual trade show at the Colorado Convention Center, and there was a very special event on its sidelines: a presidential fundraiser.
Rand Paul tapped into a new money-raising well Tuesday: the marijuana industry, holding a private fundraiser at the National Cannabis Industry Association's business summit and expo here. The price to get into the closed-door event not far from the exhibition hall? $2,700.
