Smokin' market

Legalizing drugs isn't a subject that comes up at commercial real estate conferences very often.

But warehouse owners and brokers are buzzing about the possibility of Florida voters approving the medicinal use of marijuana in November.

Consider what's happened in Denver since the use of recreational marijuana was approved there. “They're scarfing up space like crazy for grow houses,” says Jim Boback, executive managing partner and broker of iCore Global - Fort Myers, speaking at the CCIM Real Estate Outlook Conference in Fort Myers recently.