It's something we say a lot here.
"Only in California."
In this case, it was a former federal bureaucrat being given "rock star" treatment.
And I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't been there to witness it.
I was at the annabis Business Summit & Expo in San Jose, Calif., on July 26, finishing up watching the keynote address from James M. Cole – the then-deputy U.S. attorney general who authored the 2013 "Cole Memo" shielding states with legalized marijuana from federal intervention.
I've spoken with Cole before – so I approached the stage hoping to shake hands, catch up, and maybe make plans for a later meetup.
However, everyone else at the McEnery Convention Center had similar plans.
Hundreds of folks rushed the stage – but summit organizers quickly pulled out their walkie-talkies, surrounded Cole, and rushed him out of the building as if he was Mick Jagger.
Sure, I was a bit disappointed – but I also had to laugh.
It was yet another example of the amount of excitement surrounding the legal cannabis industry.
And like so many of legal weed's timeline events, I was there to witness it.
In today's report, I'll tell you what else I saw at the summit.
And now that we're apparently at the "rock star" stage of legal cannabis' lifespan, I'll give you my top three pot stocks to get you started.
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