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Former Cara CEO tackling marijuana sector through Golden Leaf Holdings Ltd

Submitted by Marijuana News on Thu, 10/15/2015 - 09:16

Don Robinson says he is bringing the “best of big business practice” to just about the last place investors would think to look for it: the marijuana sector.

“We’re a marriage of industry experts who don’t have corporate experience with corporate grey-hair adult supervision,” he said of his new company Golden Leaf Holdings Ltd. “That marriage is really critical.”

Robinson, 61, has been in the food business for more than 30 years, most recently as chief executive of Toronto-based Cara Operations Ltd. Now he is running Golden Leaf, which began trading on the Canadian Securities Exchange on Wednesday. With revenues of more than US$1 million a month and growing, its sales already dwarf nearly all the licensed medical marijuana producers in Canada.

After leaving Cara in 2013, Robinson worked briefly on licensing applications for medical pot in Canada. He decided that was going nowhere, so he moved onto what he...

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