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Publisher's note: Great example of a ganjapreneur thinking outside the box. (Or should we say "inside the box?") Shows how much commercial real estate - no matter the perception of "desirability" - can grow as states legalize MJ. Good luck, Mr. Erker.
In March, Colorado native Nicholas Erker purchased the town of Brush’s defunct Correctional Facility. Now, with more than six months of successful legal weed in Colorado’s history books, Erker wants to turn his purchase into a cultivation facility and start selling retail cannabis in Brush.
The only problem? Brush—a town with the motto “Homegrown Happiness!”—has a moratorium on marijuana businesses in place until 2016. That moratorium means no individual can legally grow cannabis or sell retail marijuana in Brush’s confines.
Fortunately, the moratorium can be revisited at any time. To plead his case and move the town’s stalled weed needle, Erker wrote a letter to the Brush City Council, politely asking them to lift the moratorium and allow him to turn the empty jail into a field of (marijuana) dreams.
From Erker’s poignant perspective, the facility’s goal wouldn’t be just to attract a bunch stoners to Brush, a town Northeast of Denver. Instead, he estimates the transformation would be a boon to his town and its economy.
