California at a Crossroads

The plan to create a business based on a shared love of cannabis drove Marie Montmarquet and Allen Hackett from east of the Mississippi to the West Coast.

“I always wanted to move to a compliant state and take this to a real business, and not be somewhere that it was criminalized and have to worry about jail time or being prosecuted for doing something that we love,” says Montmarquet, who was born and raised in Nashville, Tenn. “We were just so passionate about the plant that we wanted to be able to do this for our entire life.”