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Michigan's entrepreneurs are seeing dollar signs with the state's vote in November to legalize recreational marijuana.

But many out-of-state interests are already moving in.

"Don't bet on race horses. Invest in the race track."

Michigan is not the first state where investors¹ have spent big on marijuana.

Take California for example.

This spring, manager Ryan Jennemann showed me around the offices of THC Design in Los Angeles, California.

"So this is the distribution room. This is where we keep all of our product, bulk product, package product is in all those boxes."

"Here's packaged flower. You see 'Space Oddity.' We named it after David Bowie when he passed away" Jennemann says as we pass through a company's warehouse².

Jennemann has been part of California's marijuana industry for more than a decade, long before recreational use became legal in California in January.

He says new out-of-state players are spending big for a piece of California's multi-billion dollar cannabis industry.

"Not to exaggerate, in the last few months, we've had two different Canadian companies...they're coming here like kids in a candy store. They literally³ have hundreds of millions of dollars," Jennemann says as we sit in the company's boardroom. "It's like Brewster's Millions, where they have a limited matter of time to spend that money before they do their next raise. They're just throwing money at a wall."

Michigan could be the next big market for some of that cash, and not all of it will be spent on greenhouses and retail⁴ shops.

Patrick Rea is the CEO and co-founder of Canopy⁵ Boulder⁶. He says the investment fundout of Boulder, Colorado focuses on companies that support the marijuana industry.

Rea says they invest in the part of the industry that's less dependent on plants and consumers to make a profit.

Rea likes to say, "Don't bet on race horses. Invest in the race track."

One the companies that Canopy is investing in has plans for Michigan.

Roy Bingham is the CEO and co-founder of BDS Analytics. The company follows trends in the legal cannabis industry, specifically tracking which brands and products are selling well and which are not. BDS provides that crucial information to their clients.

"Michigan, you know, is a large state in terms of population. It's probably the fourth largest state of sales already in the United States, and that's very important," saysBingham. "If adult use passes, it will end up being the perhaps the third largest statein the nation."

Bingham guesses half the jobs in Michigan's cannabis industry will be ancillary⁷ ones like his, jobs that pay very well.

A lot of the people filling those jobs in Michigan might not be Michiganders.

For example, Logan Goolsby. He works as a compliance⁸ officer with Euflora, a marijuana business in Colorado. But Goolsby sees his future in Michigan.

"I'd love to take my experience in Colorado, eight years of experience, and move that up to Michigan and help that state and those clients up there," says Goolsby.

All of this outside money and talent moving into Michigan is not going unnoticed.

Joe Neller is with Green Peak Innovations. The company is creating an industrial complex near Lansing that will grow upwards⁹ of 15,000 marijuana plants to serve the medical marijuana industry.

Neller says out of state companies are moving into both the medicinal and potential recreational industries in Michigan.

"We knew going into this it would be a highly competitive industry and market. We also recognize that cannabis is a global industry," says Neller. "You have operators in Canada, Germany, Israel, Australia...a number of countries that are looking not only in Michigan but everywhere in the United States."

When Michiganders vote on legalizing recreational marijuana use in November, they couldbe opening the door to thousands of jobs and big money investment. But how much of that will directly involve Michiganders is unclear.

1 investors   

n.投资者，出资者( investor的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• a con man who bilked investors out of millions of dollars 诈取投资者几百万元的骗子
• a cash bonanza for investors 投资者的赚钱机会

2 warehouse   

n.仓库；vt.存入仓库

参考例句：

• We freighted the goods to the warehouse by truck.我们用卡车把货物运到仓库。
• The manager wants to clear off the old stocks in the warehouse.经理想把仓库里积压的存货处理掉。

3 literally   

adv.照字面意义，逐字地；确实

参考例句：

• He translated the passage literally.他逐字逐句地翻译这段文字。
• Sometimes she would not sit down till she was literally faint.有时候，她不走到真正要昏厥了，决不肯坐下来。

4 retail   

v./n.零售；adv.以零售价格

参考例句：

• In this shop they retail tobacco and sweets.这家铺子零售香烟和糖果。
• These shoes retail at 10 yuan a pair.这些鞋子零卖10元一双。

5 canopy   

n.天篷，遮篷

参考例句：

• The trees formed a leafy canopy above their heads.树木在他们头顶上空形成了一个枝叶茂盛的遮篷。
• They lay down under a canopy of stars.他们躺在繁星点点的天幕下。

6 boulder   

n.巨砾；卵石，圆石

参考例句：

• We all heaved together and removed the boulder.大家一齐用劲，把大石头搬开了。
• He stepped clear of the boulder.他从大石头后面走了出来。

7 ancillary   

adj.附属的，从属的

参考例句：

• The transport corps is ancillary to the infantry.运输队是步兵的辅助部队。
• This is just an ancillary business.这仅仅是一项辅助业务。

8 compliance   

n.顺从；服从；附和；屈从

参考例句：

• I was surprised by his compliance with these terms.我对他竟然依从了这些条件而感到吃惊。
• She gave up the idea in compliance with his desire.她顺从他的愿望而放弃自己的主意。

9 upwards   

adv.向上，在更高处...以上

参考例句：

• The trend of prices is still upwards.物价的趋向是仍在上涨。
• The smoke rose straight upwards.烟一直向上升。