Alex Kratz has always wanted to continue tradition and work with his family in some capacity, but when the family’s home construction business started to go south, he decided to switch gears and salvage things by going down a more budding path.
“Kratz Homes was around for a long time, we had a good name in Regina,” Kratz said.
“It wasn’t necessarily my passion going forward, and it wasn’t necessarily what my dad wanted to do anymore either, so we were just looking for something new, something different,” he explained.
In 2018, Alex was inspired by the potential the cannabis industry showed and decided to jump-start his own cannabis cultivation business from scratch.
“A couple of years ago, I read in the nation paper just about the opportunity about applying and we were kind of looking at a change anyway,” Kratz said.
“I brought the opportunity to my dad and we brought it to my grandpa and we went from there,” he said.
Now, after three years of lots of research and paperwork, the newly formed Western Cannabis family business is selling their product to stores all across Saskatchewan.
