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title: Investment in Cannabis
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/5181857/
site: ML-Quant (https://www.ml-quant.com)
updated: 2026-09-26
license: Summaries CC BY 4.0; links go to the original sources
index: https://www.ml-quant.com/llms.txt
identifier: SSRN 5181857
source_url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5181857
featured: 2025-03-26
citations: unknown
topic: Crypto & DeFi
---


# Investment in Cannabis

The paper finds that investing in the cannabis industry offers high volatilities and returns but also low correlations with overall stock markets, other sin industries, or cryptocurrencies.

- Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5181857
- Identifier: SSRN 5181857
- Released: 2019-06-05
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 90 (2025-03-26): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2025-03-26/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): not tracked
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: Crypto & DeFi

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