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Anyone currently working in retail cannabis and looking for a remote/WFH commission based job?

My company is looking for a west coast territory SDR (CA, OR, WA, CO, AZ, NV & NM). We are a cannaSaaS business operating in a near zero competitive vertical.

This is an ideal position for someone who is well connected with cannabis retailers, loves technology, and is looking for a part-time WFH job.

If interested, feel free to PM me and I will provide more information.

Thanks!

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My main focus is thca hemp flower.

I have experience with texas CHP licensing, llc, everything. I opened (and closed) a hemp manufacturing business a few years ago. I do not have experience with owning a retail location.

We have a couple vape stores in my town that sell hemp, and specifically thca hemp flower. But they sell prepackaged (from other companies) amounts at very high prices. Like most retail locations. They are also only licensed for hemp retail which does not cover white/private labeling in Texas. I would most likely be using dutchie.

My idea is this:

Open a retail location, where I purchase bulk thca flowers, and display, weigh, and (white label) package people’s purchases on the spot, like a dispensary.

Texas TIITLE 25 PART 1 CHAPTER 300 SUBCHAPTER C RULE §300.303

(k) A consumable hemp product is not required to be tested under §300.301 of this subchapter if each hemp-derived ingredient of the product: (1) has been tested; (2) includes the results that are available upon request from the department before distribution or sale; and (3) contains an acceptable hemp THC level.

I would be able to use the labs provided to me by the company without having to retest. Would it be legal to white out the company’s (from which i purchased the hemp) name on the lab test results for the QR code i put on the labels that are printed on demand?

Is this whole idea possible? Viable? There is demand locally, i know for sure. I can beat the competition’s prices EASILY (they sell an 1/8oz of top shelf [not exotic] for $50)

Edit: Texas DSHS (department of health services) CHP (consumable hemp product manufacturing) license covers when “The retailer white labels or private labels the CHPs, which is when a business places its own label (name and address) on a product physically manufactured by another business.”

I don’t speak Portuguese but I could have chat gpt write all the articles and make a bunch of cash on ads. Is that a good idea? (Yes is the only answer)

Thesis inquiry: We have a half mill available and need $1.5 to do this right. Does anyone here have experience forming an LLC with preferred units we'll quickly off load to pick up the remaining 2/3 for a fully endorsed / vert integrated micro license in MN?

I spent the last 14 months building an interesting scenario that has our team of 6 social equity qualifying professionals primed and poised for Minnesota's adult use market scheduled to open up in march 2025 (we all know that wont happen).

We have 2 LLCs built out with EINs. One is for our plant touching ops and another for pro bono / for profit technical training and industry consulting focusing on licensing social equity apllicants like ourselves. The latter will go for grants and is not relevant to this conversation. The former has a warchest of about a 1/3 of what we'll need to get our vertically integrated microbusiness, and the cultivation, solventless extraction, and retail endorsements up and running within the the first 6 months to 1 year (limited to 1 retail and a 5k sq ft canopy for flowering)

I was hoping to get feedback on how we should structure our operating agreement for our plant touching entity. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Our attorney and I are a little out of our comfort zone.

We have $500k on tap from a single angel investor our 66 year old cultivator knows through his professional career in sales. The angel is entirely hands off aside from a fairly straight forward promissory note. We are currently working with an attorney (former missouri licensed operator) to build out our operating agreements. He's offered to hop on board as an advisor as soon as we eat through our retainer.

Sidebar: you know you some legitimacy when an attorney with experience as a licemsed operator is willing work for a future payout in an industry that eats nieve folks alive 9 times out of 10.

If the OCM follows through with temporary licenses for social equity applicants, we should be awarded a piece a paper 6 months before everyone else. This paper allows us to hunt down a location and hustle for the remainder of what we'll need to comfortably, and swiftly, build out our cultivation, extraction, and retail endorsements.

We have a solid network and I dont see us having an issue picking up these funds given the 4 investors, and family members, we all have looking to get involved once a license is issued.

My inquiry centers around LLC units and the concept of FF (founder friendly) preferred shares (units) as applied to an LLC entity. Is anyone familiar with this concept and willing to explain how we can structure our preferred units in a way where we can sell them off with expedited haste to pick up the the remaining $1 million? Theoretically I understand the concept, but practically speaking, my legal background has never dipped into this scenario before.

Long story short, has anyone dabbled in preffered unit setups for their LLC? What should I be mindful of? How much of our 500k should we use to purchase our own units? Is there better (i.e. investor attractive) way to handle our situation?

Additional notes: our father / son cultivation team have been managing a canopy 1/5 the size of what we'll grow into. They are raw. Their yields are low. However, they don't have an ego and are willing to learn how to do their "thing" on a commercial scale through legit master growers. Their upside is having supplied fire flower to 1st Avenue (venue in MN) musicians since the 90s. The old man even had a strain featured in high times. Further, his best friend is Dave Pirner of Soul Asylum. Dave, and our angel investor, are both looking to license a strain after we get through our initial growing pains.

Further, I've stacked the deck for our advisory team by bringing in two licensed operators with 20 years of combined experience in CO. They are my partners in the consulting entity I mentioned above. Both are Minnesotans looking to come home, get in the consulting game, and as far away from corporate cannabis chaos as possible. There's no better way to prove ourselves as consultants than using our expertise on ourselves.

Personally, I'm a legal professional who's special interest has been cannabis legislation since studying abroad in Amsterdam in 2010. Expertise requires experience. I'm no expert but I know more than most with zero practical experience. I'm handling all of our licensing shenanigans on my own, along with 3 other teams.

I also spent 2 years as a clinical instructor for the VA and DoD where I trained clinicians and logisticians on inventory management RTLS software in both hospita and warehousel settings. Its essentially seed to sale RFID tracking software but with hospital supplies. Same premise. Same tech.

My 14 year old reddit account was created so I could enter a raffle for a magic fight box box on r/trees (oh the times they are a changing....) my point here is I've been a neurodivergent nightly smoker for quite some time. I cant wait to get this situation moving forward. We have 2 father / son teams and pair of old college roommates as our core. I'm the yougest of the 6 that include:

• retired navy nuclear chemist and service connected disabled veteran (My pops)
• I've already humblebragged myself enough
• father / son cultivation team with 60 years combined XP managing a 1k sq ft canopy
• a logistics and tradeshow specialist who had his farm and vehicles ripped from him despite being a licensed hemp grower, his suit was dismissed
• an entrepenuer who lost his ass out west getting in the game unintelligently. Like the paper boy in Better of Dead, he"s pissed off and coming for his 2 dollars (200k)

As a navy brat my Pop"s instilled in me the phrase, "do it once and do it right." We all know this plant can be an evil temptress bitch of an industry. We'll get whereever we deserve to go. Que Sera, Sera.

I appreciate your time homies, as well as any input. Thank you in advance!

Much love, CK https://www.linkedin.com/in/ckehn

Our name's generic, but our cultivators name means Bear in Norwegian. He"s an old man (and a real goid dude) building this out for his son. They joined our team late and vetoed my Alegria Cannabis Coalition for visually being too similar to Algeria. Ebb n Flow.

Just curious because I got a felony 10 years ago pretty much and it wasn’t drug related or nothing with minors. But i haven’t been in trouble and everything been paid off and I probably could get it expunged because there was a lot of grey areas. Lmk everyone I wanna hear what u all have to say because I wanna make it to the dispensary business and make a career and be proud of it but I don’t want something that happened many years ago screw up my future with working in the business..

I know this may be a reach asking through reddit post., but i was wondering if anyone has valuable information about tax write offs for the cultivation industry?

Hi guys,

I'm still new to the industry. Curious, how is the POS market looking? Are there many options? Are they any good? Do a lot of people complain? What are top pain points to be aware of. Is Dutchie the top player? I'm looking for something that would be the equivalent of Square but for Cannabis.

Hey there! Curious what info anyone has on YouTube Monetization. Is it a complete no go for growing flower or is there a way to fall into the loop holes and monetize vids?

Can anybody point me in a direction? I am looking for rolling paper manufacturing that will be able to provide papers with custom packaging. I’m looking to use the rolling papers as a business card to hand out at festivals or other events. I don’t think I need a license to give away free papers or even to sell them correct? I’m in California if that helps.

Have any of you experienced any negative fallout from using blatant marijuana imagery in branding or logos? Do you feel it has prevented you from gaining access to any resources?

https://www.sfgate.com/cannabis/article/high-times-shuts-down-pot-shops-california-19385787.php

Full disclosure after COVID went to work for a couple cannabis vendors selling their products.

Went into High Times Oakland store and couldn't stop laughing at their "Dot Com" approach to their dispensary, with over staffing, and a bunch of unnecessary bullshit. They thought they invented the cannabis industry and knew everything, even more than the Berner😅 I never have been happy seeing a business go belly up, but this one makes me chuckle inside, because they were all so full of themselves, the staff, many of whom had zero cannabis experience prior to working there..

Wanted to know if anyone has attended one of these events and what your thoughts were of it.

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I just signed up with Dutchie for point of sale system and Ecommerce to run my retail location. There are a lot of difference options for POS terminal hardware between tablets vs. computer, printers, scanners, scales, cash drawers etc. Does anyone have advice on best hardware stack to purchase for ease of use on setting up Dutchie?

I notice we have a decent community size, 95.8k members but not too many daily posts or comments.

I am mainly a lurker but I want to see more community content.

Are there any similar forums or online communities out there? Facebook groups? Discord?

I tried LinkedIn groups, but they are flooded with unmoderated self-promo content.

Thanks!

I live in a state where recreational marijuana is legal now. Is it against the law for me to roll joints for people as a side hustle? I wouldn’t be supplying any weed for people, they would simply give it to me and i would roll it into a joint as a service.

Just curious what people think about this. I’m around 3000th in the queue for a recreational dispensary. I’m trying to gauge how seriously I should be taking my business planning. I feel like Jim Carey in “Dumb and Dumber”….”So you’re telling me there’s a shot 😻”

Anyone else experiencing this? I have no idea what to expect from NYS but I feel pretty good about being in the line I guess 🤷🏻‍♀️

have you used any dispo app before and what was your experience like?

So im new to all this to start a ecommerce thca site wat woukd need to all.do. i.e sales tax documents and things like that. I found a good wholesaler but also still looking around so if anyone the plug in that end lmk.

Just a idiot wit a rich family looking to smarten up

I'm a sales manager for a farm that's currently crushing it, and our product is moving really fast, so we started doing distribution.

We need a new rep to move our w/s flower, and a really successful rep who is a good friend of mine, wants to join us. Unfortunately he's not interested in becoming a salaried employee and wants to be an independent rep so he has freedom, and can rep other brands, etc.

Unfortunately the commission he's asking is just too high, and it's way above industry standard (when commission only was standard). His reasoning, which is a good one, is the epidemic of nonpayment means that no matter how good he is, there's more risk involved for him than for us.

I thought about maybe paying him for each sale, and then the farm takes on the cash collection part. However, that just doesn't make sense, and I just don't trust people enough to not be screwing me over. As good a friend as they are, I've been around long enough that I'm not handing someone cash for a sale before I'm getting paid.

I want this guy to work for me, and as a rep myself I totally understand where he's coming from. There has to be some creative compensation plan that makes sense for both of us.

Curious if you have a rotation of dispensaries that you regularly go to, if so how many are your favorites? or do you stay loyal to one for your weed?

Im a disabled vet college student who wants to start cultivating and possibly making a business like 710 labs etc I’ll take any feedback just trying to see if it would be fruitful?