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As Delaware’s legal regulated marijuana market starts to take root, the opportunities are varied – as are the reasons for license applicants to get involved.
White Cap Cannabis, for example, envisions itself as cultivating a boutique, high-end product that would then be sold to retailers. Founder and CEO Patrick Galloway was one of the applicants who was chosen in a lottery run by the Office of the Marijuana Commissioner in late October.
“We’ll be trying to sell everything pre-packaged, pre-branded and pre-labeled as a complete product ready to sell to the retailers,” Galloway said. He added that his family has land available near the Kent – Sussex County border for an operation that would be indoors.
What about the neighbors in the rural area? Galloway said he would try to speak to them “one on one and show them that we’re Sussex County people trying to make something of this.”
Galloway has been studying how operations in some western states work as he looks to get into the business of cultivation by taking a scientific approach – “it’s definitely not growing soybeans or raising pigs or sheep or some of the other things I’ve done in my past.”
One key component of the industry would be testing. That’s where Tracee Southerland of New Castle comes in with Safe leaf Analytics – “making sure the product that’s out there doesn’t have those heavy metals, pesticides, God forbid fentanyl that some of the street weed can have.”
Southerland is still in search of a location and is carefully monitoring which communities permit, restrict or impede marijuana-related operations. While it is a risk to some extent, the equipment involved can be used for other purposes.
“I can always pivot and move into another industry if I have to,” Southerland said. But, she also said it would mean a lot to move forward as Delaware’s first woman-owned, Black-owned cannabis testing facility – most of all for her daughter.
“Once this can come to life, her being able to see that her Mom did this and made this happen would be amazing.”
”}]] They have names like Safe Leaf Analytics, White Cap Cannabis and Forest Flower – their leaders are in the process of being licensed to join Delaware’s marijuana economy. Read More
