"I literally had no experience growing anything at all," said Ellie McDaniel, who ran a laundromat until 2018."I had no idea what I was doing."
"I had a lot of failures," admitted the company's now head grower."I mean, we didn't come out of this doing fantastic. You know, we came out of this like stumbling through, you know, and learned from every mistake that we made."The business now has brought on several family members as well as around two dozen full-time employees."As soon as I knew it was going to pass, for sure.
"This is kind of, if we're Coca-Cola this is our sugar cane," said Girocco as he scooped up a handful of dried flowers."What we do is we process it into various products. So, we don't do beverages, but we do, you know, vape cartridges. We do gummies, we do dabs, we do concentrates." "It was, so it was such an explosive growth in such a short period of time that we, we basically left this open invitation to across the United States, or the world, to basically come to Oklahoma," said Berry."You know, it's pretty cheap to get a license here. It's pretty cheap to own land here. Uh, and they felt for a while that no one was watching, and that's kind of true.
However, after State Question 788 passed, Fetgatter has led the way in passing various marijuana-related legislation in order to manage the burgeoning industry. Cantrell, who briefly lived in Dallas before moving back to Oklahoma to fully embrace the medical marijuana industry, now leads a trade organization on the issue. He and others have learned that being fully involved in the political process is integral to make sure the industry survives.
CBD lobby works to keep marijuana illegal. Ain't that some shit?