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GasHouse Goes Legit
GasHouse Goes Legit
With a new base of operations secured, Felix and Kingston went to work bringing GasHouse into the licensed cannabis industry. Oregon had legalized medical marijuana back in 1998, so they set their sights on gaining licensure as medicinal cannabis cultivators under that regulatory regime. And they accomplished their goal by going it alone, without relying on outside professional advice. pg slot
“We didn’t use a lawyer. We read the regulations ourselves,” Felix explains. “We realized it was so new that lawyers didn’t even understand the rules and regulations yet. We felt that we could interpret them just as well as they could.”
With medical marijuana cultivation license in hand, Kingston went to work creating his new operation, this time under the sun in greenhouses. Although the environment was different, he relied on his experience and commitment to grow clean cannabis without pesticides or synthetic fertilizers to guide his operation. Before long, he was again producing top-shelf bud, this time for Oregon’s medical marijuana patients. After a year, the fledgling enterprise was licensed to cultivate for the state’s newly legal adult-use market in 2015.
“We got our recreational cannabis license, and that’s when GasHouse Farms was really born,” says Felix.
On a whim, GasHouse submitted entries to the Dabathon, a high-profile cannabis competition. Kingston says he wasn’t expecting to win any awards and was surprised to learn that public cannabis competitions even existed. In their very first contest, however, they came home victorious twice over.
“Our first show, we won first place off something I grew.” Kingston says proudly, quickly followed by “Two first places!” as a friendly correction from Felix. “It just blew my mind,” Kingston adds.
“Nobody knew who we were,” remembers Felix. “We were probably the only African American company that was at the event.”
With a new base of operations secured, Felix and Kingston went to work bringing GasHouse into the licensed cannabis industry. Oregon had legalized medical marijuana back in 1998, so they set their sights on gaining licensure as medicinal cannabis cultivators under that regulatory regime. And they accomplished their goal by going it alone, without relying on outside professional advice. pg slot
“We didn’t use a lawyer. We read the regulations ourselves,” Felix explains. “We realized it was so new that lawyers didn’t even understand the rules and regulations yet. We felt that we could interpret them just as well as they could.”
With medical marijuana cultivation license in hand, Kingston went to work creating his new operation, this time under the sun in greenhouses. Although the environment was different, he relied on his experience and commitment to grow clean cannabis without pesticides or synthetic fertilizers to guide his operation. Before long, he was again producing top-shelf bud, this time for Oregon’s medical marijuana patients. After a year, the fledgling enterprise was licensed to cultivate for the state’s newly legal adult-use market in 2015.
“We got our recreational cannabis license, and that’s when GasHouse Farms was really born,” says Felix.
On a whim, GasHouse submitted entries to the Dabathon, a high-profile cannabis competition. Kingston says he wasn’t expecting to win any awards and was surprised to learn that public cannabis competitions even existed. In their very first contest, however, they came home victorious twice over.
“Our first show, we won first place off something I grew.” Kingston says proudly, quickly followed by “Two first places!” as a friendly correction from Felix. “It just blew my mind,” Kingston adds.
“Nobody knew who we were,” remembers Felix. “We were probably the only African American company that was at the event.”