Marijuana market takes root

Mike Graham moved from row to row of his roughly 20,000 marijuana plants Wednesday afternoon, describing how his production and processing business is looking forward to the harvest.

“We’re moving right along here, and we’re excited to have a full season,” he said. “And have a season where we’re operating according to our own schedule.”

Graham is the proprietor at Natural Mystic Farms on Naneum Road, a state-licensed recreational cannabis producer-processor.

The plants grow in rows above ground, under hoops workers can tarp over to limit sunlight and stimulate flowering and create a greenhouse-like environment.

Last year, after the Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board — formerly the Washington State Liquor Control Board — started granting business licenses, Graham said it took too long to get all the local permitting he needed together, limiting how much the company could produce.

“It was just nowhere near the amount that we could’ve...

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