If you take a tour with Trent Woloveck, be prepared to cover a lot of ground. The Chief Strategy Director for Jushi Holdings, Woloveck recently led WDBJ7 reporters through the company's two-story, 100-thousand square foot facility near Manassas. As the state moves closer to establishing a retail marketplace for cannabis, Jushi is one of the pharmaceutical processors in Virginia that hopes to supply the retail market.
"This is our mothers room," Woloveck explained on one of our first stops. "Here we're able to take clones of each genetic and we'll start a perpetual harvest process to ensure standardization of product."
Woloveck ushered us through different parts of the building, where we saw plants at different stages of development. "We're an agricultural business," he explained. "You don't just turn on a machine and produce more widgets. We have to plan six months in advance for products we want six months in the future."
"And so everything we have here is independently third-party tested. People want to consume cannabis, so let's ensure that they're consuming safe, tested, quality product." Woloveck said. "The other thing is nobody under the age of 21 should be consuming the product. Unfortunately, when it's unregulated there's no way to enforce that."
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