Cannabis Fellowship Program helps plant the seed of new retail businesses [Video]

As we approach the second anniversary of recreational cannabis being legal in the Green Mountain State, many shops have opened up across our region.While the industry can seem a little competitive, owners of a new shop in Montpelier said it would not have been possible without the collaborative work of other industry insiders. The owners of Juana’s Garden tell NBC5 that their shop is ready to make its mark on the retail cannabis industry.”I never thought that I would be a business owner, like that was my wildest dream,” Cintia Lovo Arias, co-owner of Juan’s Garden, said. Lovo Arias was born in Columbia and recalls thinking the idea of owning a business was unattainable.”The drug cartels and guerrillas and extreme poverty and violence was all around me,” Lovo Arias said. Through the Cannabis Generation Equity Fund and the support of her mentors at Zenbarn Farm in Waterbury, the first seeds …