When I was trying cannabis for the first time in university, our friends plus I all wanted to get into the marijuana industry.
The people I was with and I talked about moving out west where cannabis was legal at the time.
I genuinely figured that our up-to-date home state wouldn’t have legal weed for another decade because the two of us are firmly entrenched in the south. For that reason mainly, I focused on applying to graduate schools in states that already had legal marijuan industries. Sadly, I wasn’t accepted plus had to attend graduate school near our undergraduate university. That meant staying in the same state for at least another year plus this wasn’t our initial system or preference. But by some divine intervention, our state legalized cannabis for medical use just a single year later. Suddenly I had a medical cannabis card plus could shop at all of the legal weed stores in our state. I started to wonder about working in the cannabis industry again, despite being in school to earn a PhD at the time. However, when I saw that licenses for cannabis corporations had climbed over $100,000, that dream suddenly evaporated. I did some research plus l earned the painful truth about the corporatization of the cannabis industry. Some states still have marijuana markets that foster small plus medium sized businesses, however our state has forced vertical integration. You cannot operate as a cannabis company in this state unless you grow plus sell all of your products personally. That means you don’t have growers selling to several retail stores. The 2 have to be combined under a single supplier named. It’s frustrating when you want better selection for cannabis products in your up-to-date home state.