Mike Sacci at House of Sacci in Akron is riding high after harvesting big, fragrant cannabis buds in his mixed light greenhouse. Tom Szulist and Alexis Heim are happy with their harvests but navigating a brick wall of bureaucracy at the Office of Cannabis Management to get their microbusiness farm stores up and running.
Lisa Keller? She wishes she had never gotten into the cannabis business to begin with. Western New York's second annual cannabis harvest is in the books, and farmers' feelings about the industry run the gamut.
It shows the mixed bag of results growers are getting as they try to make their living supporting the cannabis market in New York State.
While some growers are gaining a foothold and finally getting their heads above water – finding their niche and making their way onto consumers' shopping lists – others are still fighting to claw their way out of the hole they found themselves in after what many have called a botched rollout of the state's recreational cannabis industry.
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