In Nick Smith's emerald kingdom, there's no need for any green-tinted glasses. He's already growing a jungle.
"This is one of the more advanced grows in the state," Smith said, as he led me through his Alburgh business, Emerald Visions. In each room, the humidity and heat were carefully calibrated and controlled to help his cannabis plants grow. Since getting started in 2021, Smith has been one of Vermont's more proficient cannabis cultivators, with his products showing up on dispensary shelves across the state. And it all comes from a nondescript building in Alburgh.
"They have a better life than even my dog," Nick Smith said about the plants growing under the lights. "They have the best lives ever."
Smith is one of the first people talked to about Vermont's professional cannabis industry when it launched in the state back in 2022, as he was one of the first cultivators to receive a license in Franklin County. But a lot has happened at Emerald Visions since then. Smith grew the business to a six-person operation and added an entire new section to the building to prepare for an eventual dispensary, while helping out others in the industry set up their own grow operations.
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