{"id":4940,"date":"2022-03-18T17:46:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T17:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenentrepreneur.com\/article\/422587"},"modified":"2022-03-18T17:46:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T17:46:00","slug":"the-future-of-cannabis-consumption-lounges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/?p=4940","title":{"rendered":"The Future of Cannabis Consumption Lounges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that adult-use cannabis is legal in so many states, where can you smoke it publicly and socially? Turns out almost nowhere. But this week&#8217;s podcast guest, Cameron Forni, believes that&#8217;s about to change\u2014in a big way.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Forni is the CEO of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hypescaleventures.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hypescale Ventures<\/a>, which invests in new technology and ideas in the cannabis space. He is a true success story in the business. In 2019, Curaleaf bought his company Select for an estimated $948 million, creating the world\u2019s largest legal cannabis company by revenue.&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" alt class=\"lazyload\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/the-future-of-cannabis-consumption-lounges.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>On the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenentrepreneur.com\/listen\/green-entrepreneur\" rel=\"follow\">Green Entrepreneur Podcast<\/a>, Forni talks to host Jonathan Small about some of the investments he\u2019s most excited about, including the explosion of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenentrepreneur.com\/article\/373094\" rel=\"follow\">cannabis consumption lounges<\/a>, where people can enjoy cannabis products in a safe, social, and festive&nbsp;space, much like a bar for consuming alcoholic beverages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that adult-use cannabis is legal in so many states, where can you smoke it publicly and socially? Turns out almost nowhere. But this week&#8217;s podcast guest, Cameron Forni, believes that&#8217;s about to change\u2014in a big way.&nbsp; Forni is the CEO of Hypescale Ventures, which invests in new technology and ideas in the cannabis space. He is a true success story in the business. In 2019, Curaleaf bought his company Select for an estimated $948 million, creating the world\u2019s largest legal cannabis company by revenue.&nbsp; On the Green Entrepreneur Podcast, Forni talks to host Jonathan Small about some of the&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marijuana_information"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}