opportunity. meg collins saw an opportunity in pot. in her case, to help shape public policy. before taking the job as the executive director of the cannabis business alliance, she spent most of her career in the oil and gas industry. i like to say i ve gone from gas to grass and i thought what a phenomenal opportunity to be on the ground floor of building the legal and regulatory framework for a new industry. and this is an industry that has a lot of rules like the requirement to grow and sell your own cannabis instead of sourcing it from somewhere else. i met jan, a former spa owner and mother of two who decided she wanted to take her experience in that industry and translate it to the emerging cannabis business. we met her at one of her seven grow facilities outside of boulder. i hear this term seed to sale quite a bit. can you explain to me what that means? the state of colorado would like us to track every plant from seed to sale. and so from every plant that we put into
store. a pro, getting a lot of repeat customers. con, mostly because they forgot they were just into your store five minutes ago. i think i need some weed man. check your right pocket. yeah, thanks. we visited the first ever colorado cannabis summit in denver and found a very profession group of entrepreneurs. many of whom were women networking and coming together to talk seriously about cannabis. we like to think of ourselves as marijuana mavens. brooke was working in commercial banking and real estate before taking that leap of faith and getting involved in the cannabis business in 2009. there are a lot of educated people that had left their jobs in corporate america or left other business ventures that they had successes in because they saw or felt a sense of opportunity. meg collins saw an opportunity in pot. in her case to help shape public policy. before taking the job as the executive director of the