Javier Hasse

Cannabis sales in North America reached about $6.7 billion in 2016 and is expected to surge to $30 billion by 2021.

70 to 80 percent of startup cannabis businesses reach break-even within the first year

There are more than 2.6 million medical marijuana users in the U.S.

29 states have legalized the sale of medical or recreational marijuana sales

This is a new addition to the Entrepreneur Startup series which includes titles like Start Your Own Microbrewery, Distillery, or Cidery and Start Your Own Import/Export Business

Javier Hasse is a writer and reporter with a focus on the cannabis and small-cap biotech industries and an advocate of marijuana legalization. He has had more than 4,500 articles published on a variety of mass media outlets including Playboy, High Times, Leafly, Benzinga, The Wall Street Journal's MarketWatch, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, InsiderMonkey, CNN Money, Fortune Magazine, MSN, Nasdaq, Morningstar, Microsoft, FOX Business, Investing Channel, among many others.