When I was trying cannabis for the first time in college, my friends plus I all wanted to get into the marijuana industry.
- Every one of us talked about moving out west where cannabis was legal at the time.
I entirely figured that my home state wouldn’t have legal weed for another decade because the people I was with and I 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 my undergraduate college. That meant staying in the same state for at least another year plus this wasn’t my initial method or preference. But by some divine intervention, my 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 my state. I started to wonder about laboring 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 hastily evaporated. I did some research plus l received the painful truth about the corporatization of the cannabis industry. Some states still have marijuana markets that foster small plus medium sized businesses, however my state has forced vertical integration. You cannot operate as a cannabis supplier in this state unless you grow plus sell all of your products personally. That means you don’t have growers selling to many retail stores. The several have to be combined under a single supplier named. It’s frustrating when you want better selection for cannabis products in your home state.