Post by pavel on Apr 3, 2016 15:40:43 GMT -6
TRINIDAD, Colo. — On the first day the state of Colorado allowed the sale of recreational marijuana, Chris Elkins waited two hours in the freezing cold to buy weed.
“The line was down the stairwells, down the sidewalks, around the buildings, down the street,” Elkins, who had traveled to Colorado from Arkansas for a long-planned ski trip, recalled about that New Year’s Day in 2014.
“We’re all just standing out in the cold, shaking,” he said.
As Elkins braved the winter weather with scores of stoners, the budding businessman saw an opportunity to cash in.
“Being an entrepreneur, I recognized that there’s going to be plenty of sales in this industry,” he said. “People are going to need to expand — that’s a difficult thing to do — and I took it upon myself to jump in the industry at that time.”
Read more: www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/colo-entrepreneurs-have-high-hopes-for-marijuana-mini-mall/article_b977c728-8562-58f6-8322-5a73a1d800d3.html
“The line was down the stairwells, down the sidewalks, around the buildings, down the street,” Elkins, who had traveled to Colorado from Arkansas for a long-planned ski trip, recalled about that New Year’s Day in 2014.
“We’re all just standing out in the cold, shaking,” he said.
As Elkins braved the winter weather with scores of stoners, the budding businessman saw an opportunity to cash in.
“Being an entrepreneur, I recognized that there’s going to be plenty of sales in this industry,” he said. “People are going to need to expand — that’s a difficult thing to do — and I took it upon myself to jump in the industry at that time.”
Read more: www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/colo-entrepreneurs-have-high-hopes-for-marijuana-mini-mall/article_b977c728-8562-58f6-8322-5a73a1d800d3.html