Jim Finnel
Fallen Cannabis Warrior & Ex News Moderator
For more than a year, the Helena-based Montana Cannabis has been delivering regularly to the Richland County area. And with the number of medical marijuana patients on the rise, the company is now looking to set up shop.
“We’ve been very low key here in what we do,” co-founder Chris Williams said during a trip to Sidney recently. The company started one and a half years ago after the owners were caregivers. “We just found there was a need for all three of us to group together to better serve our patients,” Williams said. There were remote areas where patients weren’t getting the service they needed, “so we started a delivery system.”
In the past year, the company has delivered to eastern and northern Montana. It also serves southern Montana. “We’ve been increasing our delivery times because we’ve gotten more patients here, and now we’re looking at getting a store here in the near future,” he said.
The business philosophy, Williams said, is to fit into communities and not to “rub them the wrong way.” They use education rather than marketing, he said, “so that when people do see our name out there they realize what we’re really about, which is serving sick people who need this medicine to have a higher quality of life.” The founders also lobby in Helena for legislation dealing with medical marijuana to “make positive changes” for this issue.
The company, which has three stores open in Miles City, Billings and Helena, believes in serving patients first and to serve the highest quality medicine at the lowest cost. It offers seven types of strings including massage oils, baked goods, lip balms and soap, all with active THC. The highest a patient pays is $250 per ounce. It’s all delivered to the home. The company grows 32 genetics of cannabis; the wide variety stops the body from building an immunity to the drugs. “Instead of having to increase the amount you would take – which you will hit a plateau and it won’t be effective – if you change genetics it’s effective again,” he said.
Williams is quick to say Montana Cannabis does not serve those who are not their patients and those who are not legal to use medical marijuana.
Those who want more information on how to get a card, sign up as a patient under Montana Cannabis, and the laws and legalities may visit Montana Cannabis or call 877-458-0888. Staff answer phones 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays-Fridays. Call the office to be set up as a patient. Williams will meet them to fill out paperwork. It takes a four- to five-week period to process the paperwork and receive a card from the state. From there, delivery will occur in seven days.
As a gardener for the company, Williams says growing the plants is what he enjoys most. “It’s my passion,” he said, adding that he also enjoys patient care which comes with criticism of the medicine. “Some people are less forgiving.”
In any case, Williams says the team of horticulturalists, botanists and agriculturalists he works with are moving the science behind cannabis forward, “so we can kind of lead the way in the country not just in Montana.”
NewsHawk: User: 420 MAGAZINE
Source: Sidney Herald
Author: Louisa Barber
Copyright: 2010 Sidney Herald
Contact: reporter@sidneyherald.com
Website: News : Montana Cannabis works on opening store in community : Sidney Herald, Sidney, Montana
“We’ve been very low key here in what we do,” co-founder Chris Williams said during a trip to Sidney recently. The company started one and a half years ago after the owners were caregivers. “We just found there was a need for all three of us to group together to better serve our patients,” Williams said. There were remote areas where patients weren’t getting the service they needed, “so we started a delivery system.”
In the past year, the company has delivered to eastern and northern Montana. It also serves southern Montana. “We’ve been increasing our delivery times because we’ve gotten more patients here, and now we’re looking at getting a store here in the near future,” he said.
The business philosophy, Williams said, is to fit into communities and not to “rub them the wrong way.” They use education rather than marketing, he said, “so that when people do see our name out there they realize what we’re really about, which is serving sick people who need this medicine to have a higher quality of life.” The founders also lobby in Helena for legislation dealing with medical marijuana to “make positive changes” for this issue.
The company, which has three stores open in Miles City, Billings and Helena, believes in serving patients first and to serve the highest quality medicine at the lowest cost. It offers seven types of strings including massage oils, baked goods, lip balms and soap, all with active THC. The highest a patient pays is $250 per ounce. It’s all delivered to the home. The company grows 32 genetics of cannabis; the wide variety stops the body from building an immunity to the drugs. “Instead of having to increase the amount you would take – which you will hit a plateau and it won’t be effective – if you change genetics it’s effective again,” he said.
Williams is quick to say Montana Cannabis does not serve those who are not their patients and those who are not legal to use medical marijuana.
Those who want more information on how to get a card, sign up as a patient under Montana Cannabis, and the laws and legalities may visit Montana Cannabis or call 877-458-0888. Staff answer phones 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays-Fridays. Call the office to be set up as a patient. Williams will meet them to fill out paperwork. It takes a four- to five-week period to process the paperwork and receive a card from the state. From there, delivery will occur in seven days.
As a gardener for the company, Williams says growing the plants is what he enjoys most. “It’s my passion,” he said, adding that he also enjoys patient care which comes with criticism of the medicine. “Some people are less forgiving.”
In any case, Williams says the team of horticulturalists, botanists and agriculturalists he works with are moving the science behind cannabis forward, “so we can kind of lead the way in the country not just in Montana.”
NewsHawk: User: 420 MAGAZINE
Source: Sidney Herald
Author: Louisa Barber
Copyright: 2010 Sidney Herald
Contact: reporter@sidneyherald.com
Website: News : Montana Cannabis works on opening store in community : Sidney Herald, Sidney, Montana
