This new funding platform wants to help cannabis companies promote themselves

Financing and advertising have often been tricky arenas for cannabis companies to navigate in states that have legalized marijuana. (Click here for Benzinga article)

Unlike well-known brands such as Nike Inc.  or Anheuser Busch InBev’s Budweiser, there have been limitations on reaching customers through traditional advertising mediums such as magazines or television because the U.S. government considers marijuana a Schedule 1 drug.