Nader Offers Words of Encouragement and Warning to Conference-Goers

By John Schroyer

Longtime consumer advocate and former presidential candidate Ralph Nader delivered both some tough love and an encouraging pat on the back to cannabis industry members during his keynote address at the 2015 Marijuana Business Conference and Expo on Thursday.

In a wide-ranging speech that covered everything from the uses of industrial hemp to how marijuana legalization could affect other arenas of political reform, Nader called cannabis legalization a “massive gift” to the…