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Convicted Marijuana Grower Turned Successful Web Developer

Forbes - TechJan-20-2017, 16:30:03 GMT

When Chad Latham was convicted to spend 15 years behind bars for growing marijuana, he couldn't have predicted what the future would hold for him. A decade into his sentence, marijuana was legalized in his state (Washington), and shortly afterward he received clemency from President Obama. Sent out into the world a free man, Latham had some recalibrating to do. The looming question, of course, was "What now?" In his teenage years he'd been interested in computers, and it had stuck.

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