decided that marijuana and candy, marijuana and soda, marijuana and all sorts of sweets and snacks that appeal to children go well together. i m an adult. i like candy, okay? i have a sweet tooth. this whole thing about candy and sweets only appealing to children is ridiculous, okay? i eat massive amounts of chocolate, all right? i love it. okay? that s just the way it is. it s not just kids. we re packaging everything for children. stop it. i m adult. it s ridiculous. these rules do not go far enough. the industry is putting marijuana in foods that kids eat by the handful. marijuana in edible form is dangerous. as we keep increasing the costs of the manufacturers in the edibles market and those products become more expensive at the store, you re opening the door for people to go back to the black market. members of our committee from the medical and research community said that it is impossible to control or predict a consumer s reaction to a marijuana edible. just like with
here s an example of marking it simply, frosting or whatever. that s handwritten. that looks like it s hard to do in mass quantity. i m sure you could get some sort of, you know isn t there something called fondant? that s changing your process. that goes against my mission of my company, to force me to put a nonorganic ingredient. symbols in and of themselves are not necessarily universally understood. you re adding an ingredient. that s something that s not part of this. it should primarily be focused on child resistant packaging, labeling, education, and products being marketed as the last thing on the list. i think part of the problem with the industry is we don t have access to capital. we can t go out and buy a $200,000 piece of equipment. oreo can do it, sure. can we do it? no. the products look the same side by side, and we re trying to distinguish as a guide for
patients, marijuana regulars. 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.
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.
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.