Excerpt taken from TheStar Friday March 14, 2014:

"One publicly-traded Canadian company has their sights on ancillary industries rather than growers or producers.

“There are just a lot of companies rushing into that space,” said Harry Barr, CEO of Vancouver-based Next Gen Metals Inc. “Part of my fear is that there’s a limited amount of patients. I see us financing the companies that do the lights, the fertilizer, the seed, the sophisticated equipment that would go in there. To use a mining analogy, I want to sell them the picks and shovels.”

The long time mining executive, who is diversifying into medical marijuana and industrial hemp to buoy a mining slump, said Next Gen is currently reviewing 45 proposals."

http://www.thestar.com/business/2014/03/13/financing_abounds_for_medical_marijuana_startups.html