Norton arbelaez denver

After being started as clones and spending time in a "veg" room, plants grow to maturity over days in spaces like this. Norton Arbelaez, co-owner of River Rock Cannabis, stands in one of the company's Denver flower rooms. The room is fitting with special lighting to simulate different growing periods in a plant's life. He opens one door and blinding light spills out.

Cannabis plants crowd the room. They sit atop low, wheeled carts, their tops stirred by wall-mounted fans. A bunch of plants.

Well, hundreds of them. I decided that a flower room like this needed to be one of my first stops here in Colorado. But few have the ability to make people a lot of money at a time when attitudes about marijuana are shifting toward full legalization -- a move people here expect to see to play out around the country in just a few years. At times I abstain for weeks to reset. Your biggest fear?

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After several months of political meetings, interviews with the media, and lobbying, MMIG and other pot policy groups were able to convince the state legislature to enact the Colorado Medical Marijuana Code, which regulated the business of selling medicinal weed. We didn't want to put our patients in risk or danger—many of our clients are people with cancer, HIV, and post-traumatic stress [disorder].

If we had started promoting recreational marijuana, we would have gotten the federal government pissed off, and it would have shut the whole thing down, which would leave the patients without their medication. What would have we achieved? But when voters approved Amendment 64 in , making recreational weed legal, RiverRock was quick to take advantage of the new opportunity. They had visited our crops, and our employees were already certified. It made sense: The government had to learn, too.