If your running a business and you can't do that yourself and have to outsource that should say something right their.
Do you know what kind of work it takes to run a small scale commercial MMC? Do you know how much is produced regularly? Do you know the average investment capital of a MMC? Do you know how many hours of work it takes to run a retail business and a manufacturing facility at the same time, all while making time to help lobby the politicians to try and save the industry you've invested so much in?
Doesn't leave much time to do what 10 focused workers take 10 hours to do weekly while maintaining the rest of the operation...
Not so much fishy as just abunch of assholes like yourself that see green and then try to capitalize on the compassion of our community.
There is a right way to do things and there is a wrong way.
Mucking up a grower site with all your commercial bullshit, because you are too cheap to pay for the adverts properly is fucking annoying.
Perhaps you/they should work for a McDonalds franchise...There is absolutely no creative drive needed. Just follow the book and make money.
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You ignore 600 ads a day, now cuz it's about weed, you're all hotty? In any burgeoning marketplace, you will see an ebb of exposure marketing, and heavy competition until the market stabilizes.
As the governments keep changing the laws on us, it's not stabilizing very quickly (In Colorado, At Least). In fact, it's exacerbating the situation, drawing out the instability and legislating a false balance scenario.
I don't have a problem with the industry legitimizing itself, and "niche" occupations coming in, such as pro-trimmers, clean up crews, etc.
The main problem I see though is greed. Every businessman in the state is trying to come up with some kind of secondary industry to get rich off of without actually doing the hard work. Its like the groupies are trying to make it rich off the hard labor of the long time rockers just from swinging off our jocks.
Sorry, but I see most of these consulting companies as people that want to make $$$$ off our industry without actually putting in the hard work to grow it. Hey, if you don't have good knowledgeable growers, what industry is there really? Same story, everyone wants the money, everyone thinks weed is "cool", but only a select few are ready and willing to roll their sleeves up and get their hands dirty.
Probably very true. But it is a recession, and cannabis is the #1 cash crop in the country...what did you think was going to happen? I'm all for legislating a "organic-economic" model, forbidding franchising, inter-state ownership and employment, inter-state sales. Sure, it's a localized product, and it does a lot of good for the communities that maintain control of the product, and I want it to stay that way. But assuming it's all going to be the same as it was in the 90's is asking too much.
The game's changed, and now that the threat of litigation has been dampened by the medical industry, the product doesn't have as much capital value. The deflation of value comes as the opportunities for cooperation and outsourcing becomes a real option.
If you like it the old way, vote for prohibition, it's the only way to keep the market free, is to keep it black.
its damn easy to make money on the backs of skilled labor that is hard pressed for a job in this economy.
Too true. Many of the MMJ employees are working because they have few other options.
Nature's Kiss Dispensary on Broadway (famous for their mold and mites on buds) makes employees work for free for at least a month before they hire them...illegal, yes, but then, it's Nature's Kiss, not much about that place is legal.
