In what today’s article notes is a first-of-its-kind move by a U.S. tobacco company, a little-known U.S. tobacco firm – Alliance One International Inc. – “has one-upped its better known and much larger tobacco sellers by acquiring stakes in two Canadian firms involved in that country’s medical marijuana market.” To read more about Alliance One, the two Canadian marijuana-related firms it has acquired substantial stakes in – and the prospects for other American cigarette makers moving into the marijuana business – CLICK HERE.