Dooma Goes Nuclear: A Green Rush Story

One evening in February 2015, about two dozen Wall Street guys crowded into a Manhattan apartment to hear about an investment opportunity. After everyone settled in with drinks, the host introduced himself.

“I raise capital for private equity funds,” he said. A few months earlier, a fund had asked him to look around the burgeoning legal marijuana industry for a company “that can absorb a certain amount of capital, you know, north of 20 to 30 million.”