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Entire market lower. we re expanding on many different fronts. we re expanding here by putting more plants in. we re expanding by going and hiring new employees. and then we re expanding by going to work with aurora to increase the speed of our buildout. so the company is just growing like gangbusters. we ll have about 12,000 plants running when it s all full. this is going to give us more than double our current production. fantastic. there s no place like colorado these days. it s the sight of countless scenes that couldn t happen anywhere else, where the end of prohibition has changed the culture. for the pot barons and for colorado residents, this is all part of the new normal. doing well. looking for anything in particular? you want to drink it, smoke it, or eat it? due to mature subject ....
I m richard liu with your top stories this hour. police officers lining up for blocks outside a new york church to pay respects to one of with the officers executed in brooklyn. the funeral will be held tomorrow. one day after wishing troops a merry christmas in hawaii, the president and first lady extended wishes to those celebrating kwanza. now back to pot barons. for the pot barons the banking crisis is problem number one. whatever colorado might say, the feds say marijuana is illegal and the banks answer to them. ....
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. howdy, howdy, howdy. 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 ....
white t-shirt contest. oh, my god. guess what? guess what? we ve been challenged by team dixie for the als ice water challenge. my name is tripp keber. this is team dixie. today we ll respond to the als ice bucket challenge. today we challenge medicine man. today we challenge incredibles. tell them what we re doing. we want to thank the grew at oot crew at dixie elixir for calling us out on the als ice bucket challenge. this is the incredibles team. let s do this. it was a memorable summer, the first summer for legal marijuana, and for the pot barons of the industry, it was the summer they survived. ahh! [ laughter ] [ applause ] ....
the pot barons enemy is the black market, and they fear it. it s unregulated, untaxed, dangerous, and gives their products a bad name. to date, the fates have been kind to legal weed. but the sunny days the edibles industry has been enjoying are about to give way. storm clouds are rolling in over the rockies. the first thunder clap came from what the coroner s report called an accidental suicide. a 19-year-old boy from the congo who was a student in wyoming came over, ate one cookie, and started hallucinating and ended up jumping over a balcony. the only thing he had in his system was marijuana from that one cookie. there s an old saying that lightning doesn t strike the same place twice, but one month after this edible-related death, news of a murder also linked to edibles struck the city. it started with a 911 call. ....