The Guardian profiled cannabis-focused social media app MassRoots and said:

Massroots, the marijuana-oriented social network that emerged from this stoned conversation, now boasts 625,000 users – its user base has more than doubled in the last six months – and listings for more than 1,000 cannabis businesses. The company is expecting to hit 1 million users around the end of the year.

The article details the history of the company, formed in 2013, and how it has separated itself from potential competitors:

Alyson Martin, the founder of marijuana-oriented news service CannabisWire and the author of A New Leaf: The End Of Cannabis Prohibition, said that Massroots has a head start over its competition.

Alyson Martin

They have the funding, they have name recognition. While other cannabis networking apps are popping up, they’re the most well known and best funded.

Note:  The article incorrectly states that the shares of MassRoots are traded on the NASDAQ

Read Nicky Woolf’s “Marijuana social network Massroots enjoys natural high of success”: http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/nov/16/marijuana-social-network-massroots-ceo-isaac-dietrich

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