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Is cannabis the new bitcoin?

Cannabis has long been more associated with reducing rather than inducing anxiety among users. But investing in the burgeoning medical marijuana industry is not for the faint-hearted, according to one proponent.

“You better make sure you have charged the batteries in your pacemaker,” says Steve Hawkins, chief executive of Canada-based Horizons ETFs, which runs one of the two most successful marijuana exchange traded funds in the world.

Investors in his fund, the C$1bn ($750m) Marijuana Life Sciences Index ETF, have had a turbulent ride. A $10,000 investment at the fund’s launch in May 2017 was worth $25,750 by last September. This then plunged to $15,494 by the end of 2018 but has since recovered to about $24,000.

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