that 80-plus years of reefer madness is not going to be something easy to break. colorado s new laws have created nearly a billion-dollar industry in the first year in one state. edibles, also known as marijuana infused products, are doing hundreds of millions of dollars in sales. tootsie roll or maybe truffles. some of our production teams are actually manufacturing chocolate truffles, which won high times cannabis cup award two years ago. we just came off of that. we start with the key ingredient, which is raw plant material, cannabis. the raw plant material used in edibles is not usually the flower or bud that is smoked. it s the rest of the plant, the leaves and stems that used to be thrown away. every part of the cannabis plant is used. we go ahead and render it into a cannabinoid oil. this is actually an apex
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 today because we are for the
it had to be made easily separable at the point it was scored. more troubles for the edibles industry. while the new rules about dosing and packaging were wreaking havoc, the news runs stories on black market attempts to make edibles at home. a regulatory tsunami of new safety rules was just over the horizon, threatening to halt production. the opposition may not be able to shut down the edibles industry, but a barrage of shifting regulations could cause a war of attrition. dixie is running on oil reserve, unable to create marijuana oil because of new fire department regulations. their assembly line won t be rolling again until they get a new explosion-proof hood for their extractor. cheapest i found is $25,000. you have to have the certifications. butane guys blowing themselves up. this is something we allocated, what, three gs for. because the requirement they re putting us under is silly. indecisions will cost my
company everything. so what are we going to do? because we can t be out of production for two weeks. i can t describe to you the fear, the uncertainty, the doubt that i ve been carrying with me for the last three weeks. clearly, we re going to have to make some decisions if we aren t going to have oil in here next week. probably not good decisions. an industry in crisis is an industry united. the cannabis business alliance is like any other industry group. however, marijuana is not like any other industry. the issues were regulations and how can we as an industry fight back on these illogical, not practical regulations. in any other instance, if you leave your firearm out, if you leave your pharmaceuticals out, if you leave your alcohol out, they go to the parent and go, what are you doing? if it s cannabis, they re coming to the manufacturers and saying, you need to protect those parents kids because they
she overconsumed an edible. it was uncomfortable, but she woke up the next day after a scary situation and decided to write what she wrote. if she would have had this experience with a bottle of wine, would she have written about it? ms. dowd declined to be interviewed for our story. the times column brought a harsh spotlight on an industry wide problem. colorado s edibles were initially dosed for medical 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 prob