By WHITNEE ICE
St. Joseph Post
A medical marijuana manufacturing and dispensary company is coming to St. Joseph.
Vertical is a licensed medical marijuana operator new to St. Joseph.
Vertical Spokesperson Tammy Puyear says they currently have 10,000 square feet of flowering canopy in the 64,000 square feet of production space.
"When we are fully finished without build-out it will be 30,000 square feet of flowering canopy," Puyear tells St. Joseph Post.
Puyear says Vertical takes the time to make sure the buds they are producing are finely trimmed.
"What happens to the plant after it's been harvested, after it's been dried, and after it's been cured, then it has to be trimmed, and some companies will use machines for that," says Puyear. "Because we're a top-shelf brand, we'll actually be doing our trimming by hand."
Puyear says with the manufacturing company and dispensary coming to St. Joseph, there are new job opportunities as well.
"There's a lot of people that would like to break into the industry and for them to have an opportunity in St. Joe has a lot of people very excited," says Puyear.
Puyear says each person seeking to enter the dispensary area that sells cannabis must have a patient card.
"People will be able to go in the front door of the dispensary and sort of look at T-shirts and things like that, but they wouldn't be able to get access into the portion of the facility where there's actual cannabis being sold," says Puyear.
The production facility is at 3101 Townesouth Court in the Eastowne Business Park while the dispensary is at 908 N Belt Highway.