Moss Crossing is a locally-owned, award-winning cannabis dispensary located in the South Hills of Eugene, Oregon. Situated in the middle of a residential neighborhood, the company’s aim is to help expand the cannabis market by providing a more comfortable, traditional shopping experience.
Popular cannabis consumption in America grew up out of underground night clubs, back alleys, and cannabis magazine centerfolds. Its praise flowed through the lips of poets and musicians, while its scorn was embodied in America’s War on Drugs.
Nine-year-old ‘Annie’ was in pain. She had had pins surgically inserted in her spine to straighten it, and the morphine didn’t help. Worst of all, it clouded her mind, to her parents’ distress. Until a newly developed product from Extract Labs solved everyone’s problem.
With a vision and a strategy to see it through, backed by a selection of the cannabis industry’s leading thinkers and doers, Chemistree Technology Inc. set out to become a major player in the cannabis space. Already, in its early stages, the company has proven successful, developing a replicable business model and demonstrating its expertise as the cannabis industry dream team.
Agripharm has been at the forefront of the Canadian cannabis industry since the very beginning, when co-founders Peter and Naomi Miller developed the country’s first purpose-built cultivation facility in 2013. Six years later, partnerships with SLANG Worldwide, Canopy Growth, and Green House Seed Co. give Agripharm the opportunity to offer some of the highest profile products in cannabis.
“We’ve built machines that understand how cannabis plants need to be handled, managed, manipulated, packaged, and taken care of,” says GreenBroz CEO Cullen Raichart. This approach, he believes, is the way forward for an industry that has, up to now, largely attempted to adapt equipment from other sectors.
At the local, state and federal levels, cannabusinesses stand to benefit greatly from advocacy groups that give them a voice at the decision-making table, advocating for and advancing their members’ best interests. Key to this advocacy is engagement, and that’s where the Oregon Retailers of Cannabis Association (ORCA) thrives.
With legalization, Canada set the stage for a new industry and thus, new marketplaces for cannabis. However, because the country is signatory to several treaties that have effectively created an international regime that limits cannabis export and import to scientific and medical purposes, companies are inhibited – and so too is the market’s potential.
In the seven years since Colorado legalized recreational cannabis, the industry has been on the upswing. Ten U.S. states and Canada followed suit and producers, retailers, and auxiliary businesses have exploded. But they’re still treading a tricky path.