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
decided that marijuana and candy, marijuana and soda, marijuana in all sorts of sweets and snacks that appeal to children go well with 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.
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
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 parents and teachers and other people to know if their children are using them.
existed within that product, and 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