As a liberal arts student in Portland, Oregon, Samantha Seagaard was already considering a career in cannabis, but she felt a responsibility to join after seeing the industry firsthand in 2007.
Massachusetts
As the head of sales for Dove Robotics, Paul Parisi is responsible for bringing automation to Massachusetts cannabis operators. The company, which is an offshoot of parent company Calvary Robotics, set up its Fitchburg, Massachusetts, facility as a test case for outsourcing cannabis weighing and packaging.
At 23, Michael Whittaker was living a double life. He was working as a police cadet, studying criminal justice and, at the same time, secretly participating in the illicit cannabis market with his wife, Jordan Mackenzie Whittaker.
“When it came down to it, I was like, ‘This ain’t for me,” he says of his short-lived career in law enforcement. “I’m going all in with the plant and see where it takes me.”
Gary Perry was climbing the cannabis industry ladder when he realized the culture had much more to offer than just cannabis.
“There had to be something more than just industry,” he says.
The pandemic hit right in the middle of Eric Sellew’s senior year of college. He was living off campus with a few friends and smoking “more joints than we should have at the time,” when a simple observation changed the course of his life.
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