OCTOBER 2019 I HIGH TIMES 55WHAT’S IN STORE?
I recently had the pleasure of visiting
Hawaii’s Big Island for the first time. My
friend James Rushing, CEO of the canna-
bis-consulting firm White Coat Services,
had arranged for me to tour the cultiva-
tion facilities of Big Island Grown, locally
known as B.I.G. Formerly called Lau Ola,
Big Island Grown is a locally owned and
operated, vertically integrated company
with three medical-marijuana retail loca-
tions on the Big Island—Hilo, Waimea
and Kona. The Hilo location opened in
January as the first cannabis dispensary
on the Big Island, and perhaps the only
dispensary in the world located on an
active volcano.
My trip started with a tour of the
Hilo shop, which has a comfortable
lobby and waiting area designed with
local hardwood and iPads for advance
pre-ordering of medicine for those with
valid state medical-marijuana cards only.
Dr. Jaclyn Moore, Big Island Grown’s
CEO, explained that her company wants
patients to “understand how their
medicine is grown and manufactured...
We’re farm-to-patient in our approach to
patient education.”
Right: B.I.G.
Purple Urkle
cross. Bottom
left: The same
strain dried
and cured.The interior of Big Island Grown’s dispensary in Hilo