Experienced marijuana growers face plenty of challenges transitioning to the regulated market, but Canadian cannabis industrial park Sitka Weed Works pitches its business model as a way to help growers make the switch – and sell craft cannabis for a profit.
The industrial park is based in British Columbia, on the southern tip of Vancouver Island.
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It does business as Sitka Legends and is located in the seaside municipality of Sooke.
Sitka serves two key roles for its partner growers, who have micro-cultivation licenses (a license type meant for small-scale producers):
Micro-cultivators lease production space from Sitka. Sitka serves as the licensed processor for those small growers, processing and packaging their crops and selling it to distributors.
The site was originally an industrial park that Sitka repurposed for licensed cannabis production, said Michael Forbes, majority owner and CEO of the privately held company.
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