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420 Warrior
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all i can tell you is the independent dispensary owners here are squeezed on one side by a black market that undercuts them with better prices and product, and by three levels of gov't increasingly favoring a corporate model on the other.
we started in my region with 8 dispensary licenses awarded. 7 went to local one went corporate. one yr later one global franchise controls 3, another controls 2, and the three private licences have been forced to form a co-op or face selling to one of the other two corporate models.
it's big money and a long game. no one's making it now.
Certainly some concerns there. All I know to do is go to all of these chain CBD stores around here and get to know them and see if I can't get some insight on where all these shops are headed with their business models and try to find out what it's like to actually run one of these stores? Are they nervous or are they very optimistic about it? That type of thing? You don't know for sure until you ask and do some real digging.
Life is always going to be a grind, that's why we use the herb in the first place...