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listening to what i have to say. but they're not listening to what i have to say. i don't get the respect that i deserve. i'm boiling inside just thinking about it. i shouldn't have let it go on this long. and i don't want to let it go on any more. i'm fed up. marijuana, pot, grass. whatever you want to call it is probably the most dangerous drug in the united states. >> i shall continue to oppose efforts to legalize marijuana. >> that was the point. a awe what we are doing now is creating the next big tobacco of our time. >> this is a highly regulated
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business. >> we are talking about daylighting a black market technology. >> on the cutting edge of a brand new industry. >> this is absolutely the next gold rush. this is the green rush. >> there is $2 billion to be had next year. i plan to take more than my fair share. i tried to get written permission to move our plants to a different location. and they were like, definitely not. >> we grew all these plants to move them. unfortunately, we can't move anything. >> state rules. in a slush. nonmarijuana, rate, 50%. throw them all away. i mean if you include all the
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little ones we destroy. all the little one gallons we will kill. probably 80%. >> killing 80% of our garden. >> 80% of the plants. >> 600 to 700 plants cut down. >> at retail this is about $1 million worth of plants that we're shredding that we could have had in 60 days. >> sometimes you have to follow rules that you don't agree with, that don't make any sense. >> the m.e.d. that you're referring to is the marijuana enforcement division, the ones keeping tabs on the whole situation going on in colorado. really since day one we've bent over backwards every chance that there was to ensure that we're on the straight and narrow, that we're following the line of the law. when i was 21, i got busted in college for growing three
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marijuana plants and had possession of two ounces of marijuana. i wasn't in the business of selling marijuana. i got caught growing my own pot, and i got two felony convictions out of it. i regretted it every minute since, but everything i did that day would be completely legal here in colorado right now. until this point i have not officially been an owner. i've not been able to call myself an owner. i finally get to apply to be the owner of this place. we're going to schedule an appointment for a as soon as portion basically like a second chance to prove that i can be a professional and i'll finally be able to claim ownership around here. >> this was, i mean, the last four months of my life, and, i mean, for what? this is what's left. a bunch of stems. that was a lot of our winter crop so i don't know what we're going to do with ski season right around the corner. >> we just threw away all our weed, and christmas is right
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around the corner, and it takes a while to grow plants, 100 days minimum. >> and now the council is talking about letting voters decide if we stay on main street. >> see, i like to drive by. i love to drive by and see like is that store hurting anyone? like is it bothering anyone? >> okay, everyone, i would like to call the meeting to order. obviously mayor warner is not here. >> i would like to propose a motion on considering whether retail marijuana should be permitted in the downtown overlay district calling a special town election for december 9, 2014. >> i think that people have this fear, this fear that it's going to change our town, the fear that this could alter the family-friendly reputation of breckenridge. >> should the breckenridge town council enact a local ordinance that allows the retail sale of marijuana in the downtown area
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of breckenridge subject to restrictions, yes or no? any council discussion? >> roll call, please. >> mr. gallagher? >> yes. >> miss lawrence? >> i was feeling so beaten down, especially after the last meeting, and like i was sick to my stomach, like crying every day, even zoe was like, mom, why are so many people mad at you? it was just so awful. >> yes. >> miss wolfe? >> yes. >> mr. brewer. >> yes. >> miss gigliello? >> no. >> mayor pro tem burke? >> yes. >> okay. >> now the report of town manager and staff. >> we need to be organized. we don't need to campaign that heavily. as long as people are register and know that this vote is happening, that enough people will vote. >> and it's happening now, on december 9.
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not like a maybe. it's on the ballot. >> i can't help but notice this neighborhood, the highlands, and these people that live out here are the supporters of the summit foundation of my job. many, many are campaign supporters. there are many that live out here that would like me to recall. it's unfortunate, a some of them i used to consider friends or acquaintances. this might sound so hokey, but like my childhood dream to be on city council, and hi no idea where that would be. the thought of that i've worked so hard to get here, and i could be taken away because of marijuana. yeah. yeah. so, oh, blah, this is what
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brian, he is focused on his dispensaries. do i think he's missing the forest through the trees? absolutely. you can only make so much out of one dispensary. this place is huge. 6,000 square feet, 104 lights. i mean, there's a lot of money that can come through this place. if brian decides to suddenly start wholesaling and he starts today, it's two years before he scales up to this. brian is too late if he's not already there. >> looks good in here, this is great. all the lights up. >> goes up yesterday and all the gutters. >> and then the drainage is new? >> yeah. >> all the drainage is done. we might have to get some replacement parts for these. >> the plants look good though. >> real nice. >> we're going to be busy in three weeks. >> yeah. >> and we don't have enough weed, plain and simple. it's really disappointing that we can't supply ourselves. >> yeah. >> i asked everyone how much they had in stock, and it was
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not enough to get us till your next harvest. >> yeah. >> and i don't even know where we're getting it from yet. >> we don't have any weed, we don't have any money. this is a kink in our plan. >> we have over $125,000 worth of bills due in the next 30 days. >> yeah. >> it's a disaster. it's really -- it's really upsetting caitlin a lot. >> yeah. >> she hates it. she -- she's over it all. >> i'm just selling widgets. that's how i look at it. you know, my widgets just happen to be very desired. i've dealt with a lot of people in this industry, and brian and caitlin take this more serious than anybody i've ever met. they actually care about their employees. you know, they are very
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concerned with, you know, not only how we're doing as in job but how we're enjoying the job that we're doing. i never want to let brian and caitlin down. i'll try 110, 115%, you know, just to make them happy. >> he's way over scheduling the employees that he does have and maybe the end result is we do have to let go of some of our employees down there, but i would just like to see what his scheduling structure is, and like you said maybe we start from how many hours need filled. >> that's where we definitely start from, not like maybe. >> okay, yeah. sorry. definitely. >> i see what you're trying to do. you're trying to save people's jobs. i'm trying not to fire everyone if we can help it. >> agreed. >> hey, how is it going? >> what's happening, guys? >> check this out. >> look at the oriental rugs. >> this is nice. >> cool. >> well, it looks nice. it's nice and full so that's good. >> and people are really digging us. you know, people come in here and it's very welcoming and very friendly and very inviting, you know. it's nice to hear that because that's pretty much what i was going for. >> yeah. >> i want people to feel like they are not doing anything wrong.
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>> so we were reviewing everyone's numbers mostly from a labor as a percentage of revenue perspective. >> mm-hmm. >> the big story is we were pretty sure we'll have to have a conversation about slicing off half of your staff. >> okay. >> pretty rapidly. >> your store does great actually, and it does one-third of the greatness that her store does. >> which is what you wanted. >> it is exactly what we predicted, one-third. >> yeah. >> but your labor is 300% over the percentage of sales that hers is. >> my labor is more than your labor. >> it's three-quarters her labor. >> you do a third of the revenue. >> okay. >> so we've got to shave that down. we'll be asking a little bit more of everybody because there will be less of you to do everything we've been accomplishing. probably can offer a rays, you know, to help increase morale while we're stepping fewer people into the same tasks. >> sucks pretty bad.
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definitely like everybody that works for me right now. i'm definitely not looking forward to the talks that i'll have to have with these guys, but it's all about numbers. >> we have 30 employees right now. we've had employees that have come and gone and some that have been with us since the first or employees like lauren that have been with us much longer and nick, and they start to become friends and family, and then all of a sudden they are not working out. they are not doing their job, and have you to let them go. you really just kind of emotionally detach yourself from the situation. >> it sucks. >> you've got to put the business first and do what's best for the business. otherwise you just won't be successful. >> hey. i was just calling to see if you got to make that payment for our mortgage today? hope that all went well. figured it would easier to call. let me know if you have questions. thank you.
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i am trying to do a budget. it's a short-term budget. just bills that we have to pay over the next -- over the next month really. we are in our slow season, and a lot of our bills are hitting really hard. we already told our landlord in breckenridge that we would be late on rent. our employees are managers and on a salary wage and between their actual net pay and the payroll taxes we pay, with unemployment taxes and wage withholding, it's a lot of bills, a lot of bills. >> wade, it's brian. >> how you doing? >> pretty good, man. i'm calling to ask if you really don't mind if we're a little bit late on this last 20% or so. you know, come the holiday season here, this town starts to get a lot busier and i don't see in reason why we won't have a similar winter to last winter. >> okay. yeah. i guess that will be fine. i -- i can handle that. >> i appreciate it, wade. i really, really appreciate that. >> brian and i have spent
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from here, you know, have my own enterprise somewhere. the dream is to sell a business to philip morris for $100 million, you know. never have to work again. casey jones, come here. both my parents are entrepreneurs, you know, feel like it runs in my family. this is college for me. this is me learning. it was like working in here. brian and caitlin were showing confidence in me, something to have people believe in you and as soon as that happened just like a switch flipped for me. they are no different from me, you know. brian didn't finish his degree in college and he's out here just doing it. it's about how bad you want it. >> does it smell like weed yet? >> oh, my gosh. >> hi, momma. >> my parents are coming today. my mother has never seen weed. my mom's going to [ bleep ] herself.
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>> this is ally, her mom brenda. this is steve. >> nice to meet you. >> nice to meet you as well. >> this is pretty crazy. >> this is weed. >> i've seen it before. >> oh, you have. i was under the assumption you've never seen it. >> we have all of our buds here. if you open them up and smell them, they are all different. they are all very different. >> can i smell this one, the tangerine? >> smell them all. oh. my family's from kansas and very, very conservative, and i -- i have never smoked pot, never even tried it, so it's a little different for me, but, you know, i'm open. i'm open. >> i've never inhaled. >> not to trying it yet. >> i'm going to pass on sour diesel. >> these brownies come, this would be like a downey body buzz. >> a downey body buzz. >> yeah, you know, lets you
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mellow into the couch. >> one day, you know, i text him, how are you? what did you do at work today and he goes i rolled 300 joints, and i just said, you know, sorry i asked. as a mother. >> right now as far as expansion, we're focusing mostly on the production side of the company. if we're going to get big. i think that's where we're going to get big. if we want to be, you know, the best of the best and the biggest of them all i don't think that it's going to be worth it for us to continue to focus on the storefronts. if we can make the same money out of the wholesale side and not have to deal with any of the headache or the stress that the store locations have caused us, why not just opt for that? hopefully alley has been paying our taxes. >> caitlin is an extremely extremely intelligent person and i respect her a lot. emotions are hard. running a million dollar company and an outrageous amount of stress that's on her.
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>> i guess everything with the company is just -- is bigger. it's the good and the bad. of course, the council thing easy to deal with. that has been like the most stressful event ever. you know, just feels so personal. i team on trying to tell myself that it's not personal but it kind of is. it's our livelihood. i just don't know sometimes if all of the work that we've done so far is going to be worth it or not. you know, the last thing that i want to do when i go home after a long hard day of work is fight with brian at home. like, i've already had enough stress to deal with that i don't need to like do that, you know,
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24/7. i don't need to do that all day every day, but i hope -- i hope -- like right now i don't feel like it's worth it. maybe it would be better if we were like, you know, right now we're dumping all of the money back into the business which is good. we want to do that, but -- and we're like collecting a pay check so it's not like we don't have any money at home, but, you know, it doesn't feel like five years worth of work yet, that's for sure, so hopefully we get there at some point, but it's hard -- it's hard to like want to keep working towards that when everything else is so hard. >> we are very close to end of building permit construction. basically what we need to do to get our certificate of occupancy, air conditioning is what we're waiting on. at that point we can call in for
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our c.o. inspection. >> okay. can we schedule the c.o. inspection now? >> no, no. because you have to call for an electrical inspection. >> okay. >> and then we have to call in for a final h-vac and plumbing inspection and then we can call for a c.o. >> can we schedule electrical and ic inspections? >> once it's done. >> can't jump the gabe. >> can't do it. can't do it. >> give me a deadline. >> good luck. >> katherine and i get along great if we're not dealing with business. once we start talking business, we definitely tend to butt heads a little bit. >> so if we're talking if we could get our c.o., let's say target would be october 6th because we're here and all of this week, like october 6, 7. >> yeah. >> when buildings is ready and everything is in, et cetera, et cetera. >> one, two, three, let's stay the last week in october. you want an actual date, katherine? >> i want a date. pick one, gabe.
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>> she is super motivated, very good as far as business goes. i'm a fantastic grower, but i'm not a businessman. >> every time i talk to you, gabe, there's more. >> i know, i know. >> all right. and break. call this meeting to a close. i am throwing everything i own on this gamble. i'm at a point now where this is starting to become my full-time job which means that i really can't do anything else, and there's no money coming in from this right now, but the potential upside is so much greater than the potential loss. we expected when i first came into this that we would be harvesting come halloween. that's not happening. we're looking at christmas right now, and i'm still not sure that i totally believe that.
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i know how to run a business. do i know anything about the marijuana industry? [ bleep ] no. which is terrifying. i mean, we can dream as big as we want, but if we can't grow a [ bleep ] plant we're not anything and we're not going anywhere. ...this isn't that car. the first and only car with direct adaptive steering. ♪ the 328 horsepower q50, from infiniti.
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philly, he moved out here and was serving in restaurants and i was serving in restaurants and he said if anything opens up you've got the knowledge to manage some people. we've got some personal issues with managers. saturday my day off, get a phone call at 8:00 in the morning from a manager who says there's nobody in the building. it's hard, you know. we went from 2 employees to 30 literally overnight and bit off a little more than we could chew at the time. a couple of things to go over. basically i've -- there's been a lot of animosity and stress i think on all of us if not the last eight months but seems a lot more the last two. technically was never a general manager before. i worked under great people that taught me a lot but there's still those issues of we don't know how to do everything. one of my owners has had one job prior to this. she worked at a restaurant for five, six months and now she owns, you know, a multiple
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location marijuana dispensary. >> sent an e-mail out asking every single manager to call me and got one of three did. >> can still write someone up for me. >> i think no one ever knows i'm disappointed. >> let them know there's no more write-ups. >> caitlin asked your staff to get this done, they didn't do it. >> i've never had an opportunity to tell these managers how upset i am that i send e-mails, especially ones that are as important as a steeped mandated report that we have to send in, like -- >> daily. >> i can't tell people to respect me or listen to what what i have to say or care about what i say. they either do or they don't. when the owners ask you a question -- >> this is what we get for having a staff of an entirely untrained management who had to grow up with other non-managers. >> what's the solution to all this then? >> they could just show us a little respect. i feel like nothing that i ask
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of our employees is unreasonable. >> well, why don't you have your write-up meeting with josh, how does that sound? >> people just look at me and they just don't take me seriously. >> all right, man. ready to have me give you these things? >> yeah. >> i'm the boss. people should be listening to what i have to say, and they are not listening to what i have to say. that's infuriating. i'm writing your paychecks >> you know why you're getting these. i gave you two write-ups. >> more upset about the fact that my employees won't listen to me than i am that council wants to kick us out of our location, and it's that upsetting. i'm like boiling inside just thinking about it. at this point i'm fed up. it's been eight months now. eight months is too long. i don't want to let it go on anymore. ♪ >> i'm giving out little coupons called can a cash and for a bcc specifically. giving them $5 off and thanking them for being here and
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supporting our economy and our community for the weekend. we're the cannabis club. if you're into trying recreational marijuana. don't hand any to any families. >> don't hand them to families because sometimes moms and dads need to get high, too. >> it's sad that this conflict has to happen. it's tough because i care very much about our brand. i care a lot. i don't think that it will have a negative effect on our brands. >> weed has always been part of the culture. >> right. >> and the brand of breckenridge. you would come here and ask your ski instructor to get you weed. you know, it's part and parcel of the ski culture. >> the fight to keep a marijuana shop open on main street in breckenridge, only one pot shop open on main street. some say it tarnishes breck's family-friendly appeal. >> it concerns me.
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i'm concerned about the people from oklahoma or chicago or florida or texas that say we're in the going to go there because of this. this could have an impact on everyone's business in this community. >> there are definitely people in this town who are trying to sell us as disneyland, but i'm not even sure if i went through the go breck advertising, our actual marketing arm, i'm not sure that they are selling disneyland because go breck organizes half of our party festivals, so whatever people want to say we are and want to try to sell as our brand, that's not what this town is selling. the direct marketing arm of our town is selling party. ♪ >> hey, do you guys smoke? >> pain relieving. >> $5. >> would you like one, too? >> absolutely. >> we're heavily dependant on our guests and tourists.
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why do you flaunt something like that when you realize your customers provide 75% of your town revenues? we're not any town usa. >> checking in, the town is certainly divided over this one. >> the media is constantly up here interviewing town council and community members, and so it's like how do you position our community? it's still a family-friendly community. >> it's disappointing, you know. i was so excited to be on town council and to make a difference. >> i'm proud of you. i think it makes me love you more every day that you stand up to what i see as, you know, hierarchy, the cabal, people who are opposing, you know, what society wants. >> what the hell? >> look at him. >> for some reason the town is afraid to let you guys come on
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main street even though it's a town-sponsored event. >> the longer we keep this issue out there, we're just going to be fodder for whomever wants to continue to write articles or quite frankly do documentaries. ♪ kellogg's frosted mini wheats® feed your inner kidult... this memorial day weekend only t-mobile has the samsung galaxy s6 edge with double the memory for free. that's right. pay for 32 gigs, and get 64 when you get samsung's hottest new phone. yep, that's twice the gigs. and zero down. you can't get that with the other guys. this weekend only. double your gigs for free. only at t-mobile.
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i have never sold a stranger i'm in the marijuana industry. there's close family and friends that know. it's not at all that i'm ashamed of what i'm doing. it's just not something that i have my head around yet. it's still pretty new for me, and there's going to be a million questions, and i'm just not ready to answer a million questions. we're over $1 million in this at this point. every day that we're behind, somebody else is ahead. obviously right now our primary goal is getting the weed grown, getting it out the door. i know how to grow a business. i know how to run a business, and a lot of these people just know how to grow weed. and i haven't heard anyone that's looking at it from the direction that i'm looking at it, and looking at it from a wholesale and from a branded
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product perspective versus from owning a bunch of retail stores. i want to be the coors. when do i want to see a return on my money? yesterday. i mean, somebody's got to pay my rent at some point. somebody's got to pay my credit card bills. if we aren't bringing in money by the end of the year, there's going to be some serious, serious situations. time is ticking. are people going to get [ bleep ]? absolutely. >> so, josh, i wanted to have like a man-to-man rather than all managers pounding own. not your strongest four weeks. >> i've had some personal things going on, too. >> that's not necessarily my business. >> nope. >> something's been slowing him down. only living up to his potential
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two to three days a week out of the five, and we need it from him 5.1 out of five days. we don't want to lose you from the company, but i think -- i think that you've been choosing not to be as good as you could be, and, i mean, do you agree with me so far? >> i do. >> the one time that lauren put the wrong packages on there whatever and you called caitlin and spent like an hour talking to caitlin mostly about how terrible lauren had made your night, had you spent the hour fixing it, you would have gone up two notches in everyone's chart. >> yeah. >> instead, you didn't fix the problem and complained and went down two notches. the other bitch problem was caitlin sent an e-mail to all managers saying we needed to update daily. she owns this whole thing, too. she's like 80%. she will kill all of us. you have to do it. if he would live up to his potential he could be our best employee. does that sound good? >> i'm with you. >> thank, man.
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let's go back inside. >> thank you. >> you're welcome. >> would you like to start off with any appetizers tonight? >> yes, the calamari actually. >> thank you. i'm going to get some whiskey on the rocks for my drink. >> me, too. >> i need something strong. >> me, too. >> there was a point in the middle of the day, probably towards the end of the day, where i had 31 new e-mails. i just had 13 new e-mails now. i got it down to four and now we're back up to 13. i think my head might explode. >> i can't think anymore. i'm done for the day. >> sucks that it's 8:00 at night, and we're a quarter of the way into a drink and dinner and work is still the dominating
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the conversation. you okay, baby? >> yeah. >> i hate seeing you all stressed out like this all the time. >> i know. >> the third time today you've -- >> i don't want to be stressed out like this all the time. >> i mean, as soon as -- as soon as possible, i'll take over as much as i can. >> just feel like there's no -- i don't even know how -- we can't even get all of the work done together. i mean, it's like really the only reason i haven't quit sooner is because i feel like i
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can't like leave you with everything. >> but i'm okay. >> i mean, i know you're okay, but like i said, i just don't know how you would get everything done that you need to. >> i think -- >> we still can't get everything done right now. >> no. maybe it's time to get a little more serious about the fact that you hate the stress and you hate having to be like this all the time, and i hate seeing you like this. >> i know. >> you know, that right? >> yeah. >> come here, babe. i'm sorry. i know it's terrible. the way out is work super hard, make sure i can run the company and do it without you, and if that's possible, then we should get you out of here as quickly as we can. i love you. >> i love you, too. >> okay? >> i mean that? i'm not going to put this company in front of us because this company's got to burn to the ground.
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house to a tiny studio in town so, a, i need to get rid of things and i'm definitely a pack rat, and, b, i need the money. my money is all tied up in the grow facility. we should have harvested by halloween is what we were expecting. we're two weeks from halloween and we haven't even submitted our licensing paperwork. so the -- the planning out of how much money i had to get me through to this point is gone, so we need some plants in the warehouse. i'm aware that i got in late. it's certainly scary to think that it could be too late, but, like i said, i can't focus on any of that, and i have faith in my -- in the people that are growing the weed. i have faith in the marketing team. i have faith in myself and faith
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in my business acumen. we're going to make it. to all the people looking at this saying i need to run in marijuana, it's so easy, so much money to be had. i would say you're probably a little late on that. money is not a given in this industry anymore. you have to know what you're doing. you have to have a plan. you have to be getting somewhere. it's a pain in the ass to move, so i'm posting all of the things that i have for sale, but it means that everyone in town right now is seeing that i'm selling everything off. it's a very public thing that i'm just now realizing is as public as it is. it's so far so wonderful with the marijuana industry. >> the reward for all the risk that we're taking in my opinion is the flexibility to do what i want to do with the rest of my
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life. caitlin's plan is to dip out of the business much sooner than i would. it's -- it's her intention to leave the company just as soon as -- just as soon as possible. are we content the way it is right now, that we're as busy as we are? no, we're not content with that. that's got to go. there's no way to rays a family. there's no way to relax. uncertainty of the banks, the uncertainty of the next president. the uncertainty of all the landlords and all the councils. we will leave the industry, we'll leave the business if this is what it's going to look like forever. >> it's not good for the industry. it's not good for me if bcc gets kicked off main street, if marijuana gets kicked off of main street, it's going to look
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like a step backwards. i'm going to fight for the industry. i'm going to fight for the industry which, yes, involves fighting for bcc. my plan today is to try to get in touch with brian, talk with him about the need to really step up given some of what i know with what the opposition is doing. the more industry support we can get behind this, the better. this is bigger than breckenridge right now. he is a smart businessman, but i'm not sure that he thinks it as far through as i do. i certainly would prefer that we work together than we work separately. there's power in numbers on that one. >> this is brian. >> brian does not know i have a grow. i don't think i'm going to tell him right now. i don't know that it's relevant to this conversation. >> hello. >> hey, brian, it's katherine. >> hey, katherine, how you
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doing? >> i just wanted to talk to you a little bit about the main street fight and kind of figure out what you were thinking, where you wanted to go with it, kind of what your plan was right now. >> registered voters, get people to register to vote is really our own planned move at this point in time. i have heard that the opposition is probably going to put up a big fight and i think we'll be more responsive than anything. >> but i would expect that the opposition is going to go negatively pretty quickly. i knee they have hired a campaign consultant to come in and run this for them. i know they are throwing money behind it. i don't have a lot of faith that it's going to pass unless we stand up and do something. >> okay. >> i think -- i think that the key to winning it on your side, on the main street side is really making this a pot versus
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anti-pot argument because we know that this town is supportive of town. we know that this town is progressive, and we need to get that argument out there versus letting the conservative people say let's take it slow. >> i think that if that's their strength, then we can counter it. >> i guess my other question, brian, is what happens if you lose? have you thought this through? if it fails at breckenridge and worst case scenario you go out of business or you can't support yourself on airport road, do you close shop and just focus on crest butte? >> it does fine, it does about half of what breckenridge does. we'd have to lay off all of those people in breckenridge. it would absolutely terrible. laying off half a dozen, dozen people just in breckenridge alone. >> so what would be your next step? >> my next step is to wholesale, to work on the product and
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concentration on that side of the market and focus a little bit less on the retail brand because i think the future weed stores will kind of mellow down like liquor stores have and just become a liquor store and you really are after the brands that are inside of the store, you know, whether it's coors from colorado or a craft beer from colorado or whiskey from tennessee, you're looking for the product inside and you're willing to go to any liquor store. >> sure, i agree with you entirely. see you, brian. >> thank you. >> oh, god, and it got more complicated. >> how so? >> well, if brian wants to move into wholesale and i want to move into wholesale, then we personally are direct competitors. i think it helps that he doesn't truly know who i am. >> what's the next step? >> i don't know. >> you going to call your airport guys? >> in this exact moment i'm going to stop and take a pause. i'm not going to do anything rash.
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i'm in the going to say things that i don't know how those conversations are going to go because then i'm going to end up in the situation that i was just in. >> some people glance at you in a little bit of a mean way. >> you're going to lose this campaign. >> i don't think so. >> we're here to answer any questions or concerns that anyone may have on marijuana on main street. >> we're picking the wrong battle. >> police have seized 420 pounds of pot. >> we've become the black market for at least 40 other states that we can identify. >> how dangerous is this proses? >> the room fills up with gas. corner of the building explodes. >> it's going tonight longest most stressful day probably yet.
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