This Startup Is Striving to Be the Amazon of the Marijuana Industry

Tradiv’s online marketplace for wholesale marijuana connects growers and retailers on a transparent platform, replacing the industry’s gray-market pot brokers and backroom deals.

Somewhere between Somalia and Yemen in 2012, Aeron Sullivan, a Marine captain of the 3rd Assault Amphibian Battalion, was aboard the U.S.S. New Orleans thinking about the war on drugs.

His battalion floated around North Africa to stop Somali pirates from running drugs to terrorist groups like al Qaeda and ISIS.

The “Big Easy” would spot the pirates, detain them, and seize the assets, mostly opium and munitions. With cooperation from regional governments, the pirates would be sent to prison and the drugs would be destroyed.

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