Pioneers of legal marijuana — they're a lot like you
The UpTake: Casey Craig isn't much different from any other startup founder, except that he's out on the frontier of legalized marijuana.
C asey Craig works 85 hours a week at his new business, a pace that's familiar to nearly every startup founder. He has his life savings, at least $300,000, tied up in the venture. He quit his stable job and struck out on his own. He spent months searching for the best team to give his business a chance of success.
But there's one big difference between Craig and the thousands of other startup founders in the state.
"I'm a drug dealer and it's legal," Craig says. "We legalized drugs and I'm a drug dealer."
Craig, 33, is one of the pioneers of Washington's newest industry — recreational marijuana, legalized by voters in 2012.
He's operating his marijuana farm, The High End, in a new...
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