High finance as cannabis fund pitches global Ag investing superpowers 

It was high times at a high society hotel on Wednesday when a new cannabis-focused private equity fund took its fundraising pitch to a big agricultural conference at New York’s Waldorf Astoria.

Addressing a ballroom of investors at the Global AgInvesting conference amid presentations from Macquarie and Deloitte, Jordan Lewis, another partner, said: “Hopefully this is the beginning of a change in acceptance of cannabis in the agriculture industry and elsewhere.”