A 46-year-old mother of three, Dooley is the cofounder and president of Julie’s Baked Goods, a purveyor of cannabis-infused snacks. She has celiac disease and wanted to create gluten-free products that would relieve her pain without damaging her intestine. Dooley’s Denver company released its first product, granola mixed with cranberries and almonds, in 2010 and now sells about 6,000 units a month, employing 11 people.
Even in Colorado, where medical and recreational marijuana are both legal, the cannabis business involves its share of hassles. Initially, Dooley’s license cost $1,250 and required a 25-page application. Renewing it, she said, cost more than twice that and required investing about $25,000 in the company’s kitchen, including a security system with 24-hour video surveillance. She wouldn’t have a business today if her husband weren’t a manufacturing specialist, she says.
As hard as she’s worked, Dooley’s experience has been relatively easy for a medical marijuana business in this country. Marijuana remains illegal federally, which leaves every state which allows the product to figure out its own regulations. […]
I believe that the discussion has been lost with the legalization of marijuana in a few progressive Untied States. Please allow me to digress for the remainder of this paragraph, as it’s really urbanization that is responsible for so many of these planetary ills with corporate cannibalization a natural progression of enterprise. When I visited China in 2012, now with 55 % living in urban areas, there are no longer enough peasants living in the countryside to bring in the harvests or to fight the wildfires, caused by climate change. Pot cannot be successfully marketed urban or rural. Why would… Read more »
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