Companies Lighting Up the Marijuana Business Conference in Vegas

Black Dog LED's grow light stood out like a beaming purple beacon. It was bright, it was unusual, and company founder Cory Drew said it worked on many levels.

Cannabis plants need photons, and so do conventioneers.

The fourth annual Marijuana Business Conference and Expo opened its floor at the Rio on Wednesday, attracting gaggles of badge-dangling, hand-shaking conventioneers. Like every other conference, the expo, which continues through Friday and is closed to the public, teemed with information sharing and dealmaking. Unlike other shows, this one had premium fertilizer, displays of edible cannabis treats, vapor pens and Black Dog's passer-by-magnet light.

"We have the most powerful commercially viable LED grow light," he said. "This has 1,015 actual watts. We have been in business five years and have prided ourselves on being the industry leader as far as yield and quality for growing cannabis."

Drew, and other conventioneers, say the market...

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