As the doors for adult recreational sales look poised to swing open in the state, the Arizona-based cultivator Sonoran Roots is prepared. To keep up with all the coming demand, the company will soon open a marijuana cultivation facility in Tempe near University Drive and Loop 101 in Tempe that will complement Sonoran Roots' already thriving 33,000-square-foot facility in northwest Mesa. The Tempe location will also include an extraction lab where the company will begin producing concentrates and processed products for the first time.
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Backstory: Sonoran Roots was founded in March 2020, bringing together “a group of Arizona natives, all longtime friends and medical marijuana industry veterans,” says CEO Michael O’Brien. Their backgrounds include a boutique cultivator, dispensary owner, cultivation equipment supplier, an attorney, plus some friends and family.