Legal and lightly taxed, CBD operators have enormous business advantages compared to their colleagues growing and selling high-THC cannabis and its extracts.
But how will they fit in the overall cannabis industry when all THC levels – think recreational marijuana – are legal?
That’s an open question, and one that’s becoming more pressing for hemp cultivators, processors and retailers as one state after another opens the door to retail marijuana.
Franny Tacy is a CBD retailer who’s right in the middle of the debate.
She owns an eight-store chain of CBD retailers in the Southeast, Franny’s Farmacy, all of which bear a striking resemblance to THC retail stores.
Budtenders stand behind glass jars of hemp flower and explain the differing effects of different strains or varieties.
At the same time, Tacy has applied for a license to sell high-THC marijuana in Connecticut, which passed a law last year legalizing adult-use marijuana sales.
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