Derek Ross is founder and CEO of Nova Farms, one of the largest privately owned, vertically integrated cannabis operators in the Northeast. He also founded the Aged-Out Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering young adults who have aged out of the foster and group-home care systems to build promising futures and pathways to success.
With the United States ready to reclassify marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III, experts speculate more states will embrace legalization—a budding potential for...