Adam Bierman Featured in Chicago Magazine
Culver City,CA, July 30, 2014 (Newswire.com) - By looking at the business-casual apparel of the burgeoning ganjapreneurs, who joined our band of MedMen on weekend’s afternoon for the “How to Get into the Illinois Marijuana Business” seminar, as the pot sellers have experienced a change in profile in the past 20 years or so. According to the last fall’s Gallup poll, a huge fraction of American population, about 58 per cent, ratified for the corroboration of the marijuana. As the toll keep on rising, the Jeff Spicoli’s pigeonhole is luring in the investor types in crisp shirts and khakis.
Each of the attendees paid $199 to grab a spot in the small conference room at the Jefferson Park’s Copernicus Center to subtle attention of the medical, business and legal experts, congregated by the MedMen. The attendees are looking up to the ganjapreneurs and gurus to assist them through mishmash of the House Bill 1, titled as the Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Pilot Program Act, which came into effect in January 2014, making Illinois 21st state to be the part of the Union to legalize marijuana.
According to the last fall's Gallup poll, a huge fraction of American population, about 58 per cent, ratified for the corroboration of the marijuana.
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Most of the attendees came seeking firsthand knowledge on how to open first-ever dispensaries, the retail stores stashed with medical-grade pot. Others are thinking of getting their hands on a license for cultivating this prized plant. The government is still taking time to finalize the rules for handing over licenses, and that this marijuana business should be put into action by the early next year.
You would be thinking if anyone could be interested in getting hooked up with marijuana business? Well, there is no reason for not doing so. As the legalization of marijuana for medical use in Colorado came into effect in January 2001, people indulged in this business and it became like opening a hot dog stand at the corner of the street. With 637 medical pot shops and 265 recreational-use stores outnumbering the total McDonalds and Starbucks outlets, Colorado, unambiguously, has been rated as the highest state in USA.
Though, in the Land of Lincoln, the law for medical marijuana is a restricted one, which will make the business activity of the pot a trickle. The finalizing process of the medical marijuana legalization act is moving at a snail’s pace through the Illinois administrative course, the state has come down to granting only 21 cultivation and 60 dispensary licenses. There is a glimmer of hope for those thinking to score one as they prepare to submit their applications. According to the program’s statewide coordinator, Bob Morgan, they will be open for accepting applications by September.
Adam Bierman, MedMen President, steps up to the podium during the seminar, holding a phone book sized binder, and slamming it down on to grab the attention, exclaiming that it was the actual complete application from the State of Nevada. Prospective pot proprietors in Illinois won’t be getting licenses straightforwardly, as they have to assemble hefty paperwork such as this one. He further explained that this thick binder includes detailed business and security plans, tracking systems for every bit of marijuana cultivated or sold, community education plans, tax information, letters of recommendations and architectural rendering of facilities.
Because this trend is new in Illinois, and other factors are considered as well, such as kissing the feet of local dignitaries. At the moment, lawyers and consultants politically linked behind the curtain, are stashing their pockets by charging retailers a extortionate amount of $10,000, to aid cannabis retailers to establish rapport with the higher ups and officials, who can fuel their applications.
The prize is the dispensation of lawfully selling weed to a remarkably infinitesimal group of customers. This is because only those will be considered eligible for the use of medical marijuana who are suffering from the list of illness and medical conditions cured by it. As of now, medical-grade marijuana is effective against 44 diseases, including HIV, Arthritis, cancer and epilepsy. Log on http://themedmen.com/