Microsoft is entering the marijuana business with its tech

Microsoft is the first large corporate to play a role in the legal business of marijuana

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In a first, Microsoft will aid a company that makes software for the cannabis industry in the United States, to help state and local officials track marijuana sales.

This is a considered a big boost for the pro-marijuana movement worldwide as Microsoft is the first large corporate to play a role in the legal trade of cannabis.

“We’re psyched to see a major company like Microsoft jump into this space. It’s only going to encourage other companies to do it..At this point, it would be imprudent not to figure out how or where your company would profit from the emergent cannabis space," St. Pierre, executive director of NORML, a nonprofit advocating for marijuana law reform, told The Huffington Post on Friday.

The New York Times reported: