‘Alternative’ Investments: Marijuana and Climate Change

From marijuana finance to global-warming trends, a look at some new ways to invest.

Most investors can do just fine by buying a fund pegged to the S&P 500 or focusing on a list of 10 stocks with solid dividends.

But that would be so square, man.

Indeed, most investment stories churned out each day are the kind your parents’ generation could easily relate to. But sprinkled in amidst the conventional fare are occasional stories that play on themes that might have once seemed suited only for the counterculture.

In recent months, for example, there have been a spate of stories that discuss and handicap the dozens of marijuana stocks that have come to market, most of which play on the growing legal acceptance of medical marijuana. Indeed, this market now has its own benchmark, the Viridian Cannabis Stock Index, a collection of 75 publicly-traded pot plays.

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