yelled foul, the state listened, the industry reacted, experts were called, the rules were modified, and dixie finally passed their fire department inspection. the oil crisis was over. the regulators have been satisfied. the boxes have been checked. last night about 9:00 p.m., we started manufacturing oil. some day, the pot barons will look back on the summer of 2014. our nutty bite boiling away. gets to a certain temperature, and then it ll be poured. and they ll remember a watershed moment, a time of their personal wealth, social confrontation, and their political crisis. but today is another sunny day in colorado, and with it comes new opportunity. julie dooley will roll out another batch of nutty bites and hope her boutique business survives. bob will dig into his pocket and buy new equipment to make smaller and less potent
when the newcomers and tourists flooded in, many overconsumed. i know people are concerned. one of the things i m frustrated with is people thinking that the industry doesn t care. we do care. yeah, there is opposition. one of the most vocal groups is smart colorado. we have an awful lot of people here in the state that are just out to make money in this business and make this industry as big as possible. but we feel that there has not been due consideration to what this is going to do to our communities and particularly our kids. those are probably some of the most uneducated comments i ve ever heard if they re really being said. the reality is i have two children. i am concerned about kids having access to cannabis. and if you want to take cannabis out of the hands of children, put it in the hands of legal, licensed companies. it is harder for children to get
start-up companies are always fragile. marijuana start-ups, even more so. there can be great rewards in being first, but the risks are multiplied. what looks like a pothole or a bump in the road can really be a fatal chasm. my dixie shelves, as you can see, are really sad right now. i m out of a lot of the drinks, the dixie one. this is where the dixie one normally goes. it s completely wiped out. kind of out of a lot of stuff. unfortunately, dixie is out of everything we need. i don t have a lot on the shelves. many boxes of incredibles bars are nearby on the factory shelves. but not up to the new industry s stringent safety standards. so i came to the kitchen
compliance, it can drive up costs for any industry, but for marijuana, a start-up industry without banking support, the pot barons say the changing rules restrict revenues and halt production, which can lead to ruin. and when you re the kingpin of an edibles empire, you can feel at risk of becoming a government lab rat, stuck in a maze of emergency rules, fire safety regulations, production codes, all while building a state of the art weed factory. what s up? how are you, bud? good. it s borderline emotional for me to reflect on not only where we started but what this facility looked like is surreal. this has never been done before. there s never been a facility to this level of sophistication to serve a marijuana industry. that looks really nice. just curious to see the progress we re making. when you manufacture at this
million education campaign warning kids not to be marijuana lab rats. they pass emergency rules requiring edibles to be sold in smaller portions, more clearly marked, and delivered in newly designed childproof packaging. in an industry working without the support of bank loans, these new costs are serious roadblocks. the rules, which consist of approximately 35 pages, that was debilitating. we put some additional requirements on the manufacturers, and we passed that rule in emergency fashion so we could get safer edibles out in the marketplace sooner rather than later. i wouldn t say that the government is a partner with the industry right now. we battle every day on new information that comes out and new rules that possibly could be made. ten milligrams is a serving that if you sell one ten-milligram serving size alone, then it just has to be in an opaque package.