Sad part is that we actually had a good place once upon a time.
We had a good, highly skilled grower from the medical side of the industry.
He had good product, we had a good plan and we had a great facility. It all fell apart because:
- They forced us to have 24/7 QA people, where the original restrictions only required a QA person there for packaging and weighing
- They said our master grower couldn't be our Responsible Person in Charge
- They changed the security requirements so that the cost of our safe went from $20,000 to $120,000
- They changed the security requirements so the facility itself had to be upgraded, the walls reinforced and cameras placed to cover every inch of the facility
- They removed our ability to import product from the MMAR, which is where all our medical strains were coming from
- They started forcing LPs to grow an entire harvest before even commiting that they would guarantee a final inspection
- They started disallowing fertilizers and treatments that are safe in favour of some that are unknown / untested
- They changed the testing standards so that a "batch" requiring lab testing was much smaller, requiring much more lab time per harvest
By the time we were 18 months in, the cost of the project had ballooned 8x and we were no closer to opening, in fact we were probably 2 years out from an inspection that we were promised months before.
They fucked this program up from the start and very few of these LPs are going to make big profits on the market itself, but those that started them are all rich af now because they went public, sold shares or simply cut themselves $250,000 a year salaries.