About a year and a half after its opening, a local cannabis grow facility plans to add more rooms and its owner is looking at the possible addition of new businesses.
he facility, located in the former bowling alley near Holiday Inn Express on Ash Street, currently grows only medical cannabis – but that could be changing.
“One of the opportunities on the table right now is an adult use permit,” said Globe Cannabis Company general manager Rachel McClure, who started with the firm in 2020. “We’d love to be a part of that process and have the opportunity to bring more jobs to Globe, as well as adding sales taxes. Because we’re wholesale, there’s not a tax base other than the property tax being generated.”
McClure, who has been in the cannabis industry since 2014, said two drafts of the Arizona Department of Health and Human Services rules for recreational cannabis use have been issued. “It currently looks like we can grow for adult use and medical use concurrently, with no distinction. It’s up to dispensaries to decide how they will allocate it.”
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