Meet MSNBC ‘Pot Baron’ Andy Williams And His Multiple Marijuana Businesses

The cannabis industry is creating rapid wealth among investors. However, few entrepreneurs have been as successful as Andy Williams, co-star of MSNBC’s “The Pot Barons of Colorado” and founder and CEO of Medicine Man Denver, Medicine Man Technologies Inc. and several other companies.

A few days ago, Williams gave a keynote at Green Flower Media’s Cannabis Health Summit, after which he sat down with Benzinga for an exclusive interview.

Andy and his brother Pete grew up in a family of “not even modest” means. Later in their lives, their mother married “a gentleman who was very successful,” Williams told Benzinga.

Fast-forward to 2009 when the Ogden Memo came out, stipulating that the U.S. federal government would not allocate resources to prosecuting legal cannabis business in states with marijuana laws.

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