| | | The farm, home of a cannibis operation known as Indespensary, was founded by the Stanley brothers—Jared, Jesse, Joel, Jon, Jordan, and Josh—all of whom have professional backgrounds in fields like engineering and oil and gas.
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Last year, the company brought on a full-time chemist, Bryson Rast, who had worked at other pharmaceutical companies, including Pfizer. His role is to test the product to make certain that nothing they’re shipping might get someone high.
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She was having as many as 300 seizures a week, some lasting hours. Her parents, Matt and Paige, had exhausted every conventional option; nothing was working to control her seizures. Matt had learned online about CBD and cannabis as a possible treatment for Dravet, and the family found two doctors willing to prescribe her medical marijuana. They were able to get a small amount of marijuana high in CBD and low in THC and extracted the oil. The seizures stopped almost immediately. Searching for a more dependable supply of CBD-rich pot, the Figis discovered the Stanley brothers.
After Charlotte began taking an extract from the (Stanley - high CBD low THC) brothers’ strain in 2012, her seizures dropped from 300 a week to three or four a month.
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If Bollich’s name is familiar, it could be that you know him from his previous gig: CTO of Zynga. “I moved on from that, did several startups and moved around, and started looking into the cannabis industry,” he says. “It was the next gold rush, honestly.”
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It will be akin to the wine business.
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