A lord of lawn and garden isn’t backing down from his plans to build a billion-dollar business in the legal weed market. In fact, he is going full throttle on those efforts. Jim Hagedorn, the CEO of Scotts Miracle-Gro Co., has åown in the face of his company’s board by wanting to target cannabis growers as customers. Hagedorn recently spoke in-depth with Forbes about his vision for capitalizing on cannabis. “It is the biggest thing I’ve ever seen in lawn and garden,” Hagedorn told Forbes reporter Dan Alexander. “It is the biggest thing I’ve ever seen in lawn and garden,” Hagedorn told Forbes reporter Dan Alexander. While piloting his private jet named the “F-bomb,” the executive and former F16 fighter pilot who calls himself an “acquired taste” talked of his plans to invest $500 million in the marijuana industry, according to Forbes: Hagedorn is backing up his big talk with serious cash.