A Conversation with the First US Licensed Cannabis Business Owner - Tom Sterlacci of Cannabis 1
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English - September 24, 2020 11:30 - 28 minutes - 21.2 MBNews Society & Culture cannabis cannabisculture cannabisnews marijuana marijuananews potcast trichomes Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In this episode, Jesse Betend talked with Tom Sterlacci, the very first licensed cannabis business owner, about his experiences in the early days of the cannabis industry. In 2011 Tom Sterlacci made history when he was awarded the first cannabis license issued in the United States.
“As all of the first that I've had in my 40 years of working in Corporate America, I never achieved something that was so nationally and internationally recognized as that first license after 80 years of Prohibition.” said Tom.
On January 1st 2014 at 8:03 a.m.Tom sold the very first legally purchased cannabis edible in the United States. Tom says that being chosen was humbling and exciting, but it was also pretty frightening.
He added, “They went back to my grave school report cards and everything in between, every financial thing, every school I went to, I could have been wearing a pair of handcuffs just as easily as I've been could have been wearing a pair of underwear. I mean, it was scary.”
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