For cannabis to be sold in Maryland it has to be grown and processed here. For facilities like Verano’s that means output is going up to meet the demand.
“I'm really confident about the ability of the operators to rise to the challenge as they’ve rose to the challenge over the last couple of years and meet the needs of the state," said Darren Weiss, president of Verano. Cannabis is grown differently than your average plant.
Instead of massive open fields it’s grown in rooms filled with LEDs and on layers of tables. Everything is monitored and controlled, from the humidity in the room to the amount of nutrients they receive from these massive fertilizer containers.
“Plants like different things at different points of the life cycle. Sometimes we want it to be really dry and cold, other times, particularly in vegetative, we want to simulate almost a rain forest environment so plants can take on the nutrients and build up and bulk," said Weiss.
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