COLEMAN — Open for business for less than three months, Midland County’s first retail cannabis facility, Emerald Fire Farms, is cultivating customers from all over the state, tracked by their identification.
Customers walk in and are greeted by staff in the seating room, where they take your information including your identification. You wait for a moment or two before you are guided back to the retail sales area. While waiting, you can see the plants they are growing on a monitor in the waiting room via a live feed. Every inch of every room receives security camera scrutiny.
“It’s mandated, and it gives people a sense of security,” said Emerald Fire Farms President John Siggerud.
There is additional security to protect what is grown on the premises. Employees change into scrubs with they arrive for work, so no one brings any contaminants from outside into the growing facility.
“We grow it here, harvest it here and put it on the shelves,” Siggerud said. “We keep things as sanitary as humanly possible.”
As of March 2022, there were 374 cannabis licensees in Michigan, according to the Marijuana Regulatory Agency.
From those businesses, an estimated $150 million was generated for Michigan municipalities, schools, and transportation. According to the Marijuana Regulatory Agency, in 2021 Michigan saw…
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COLEMAN — Open for business for less than three months, Midland County’s first retail cannabis facility, Emerald Fire Farms, is cultivating customers from all over the state, tracked by their identification.
Customers walk in and are greeted by staff in the seating room, where they take your information including your identification. You wait for a moment or two before you are guided back to the retail sales area. While waiting, you can see the plants they are growing on a monitor in the waiting room via a live feed. Every inch of every room receives security camera scrutiny.
“It’s mandated, and it gives people a sense of security,” said Emerald Fire Farms President John Siggerud.
There is additional security to protect what is grown on the premises. Employees change into scrubs with they arrive for work, so no one brings any contaminants from outside into the growing facility.
“We grow it here, harvest it here and put it on the shelves,” Siggerud said. “We keep things as sanitary as humanly possible.”
As of March 2022, there were 374 cannabis licensees in Michigan, according to the Marijuana Regulatory Agency.
From those businesses, an estimated $150 million was generated for Michigan municipalities, schools, and transportation. According to the Marijuana Regulatory Agency, in 2021 Michigan saw…
