The California Report Magazine




KQED's The California Report show

Summary: You've heard this one before: venture capitalists are in San Francisco to hear startup pitches. But this time the story's not about tech — it's about cannabis. We stop by the grand ballroom of the swank Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco, where attendees were dressed in business attire and talking startup lingo. But entrepreneurs were pitching things like a medical marijuana delivery app, gluten-free low-glycemic edibles and $20,000 glass guitars and banjos that double as bongs.