User:Dudley Ravensworth/personal sandbox

This is some starting text for experimenting on my "Personal Sandbox" page. I'd appreciate it if others left this alone till I know what I'm doing! I've been practicing editing other articles. I will ask for a review before I publish it for real ...

Organa Labs is a Denver, Colorado based marijuana infused products manufacturer based in Denver, Colorado founded by * in 2009. The company is known for introducing products like the O.Pen personal vaporizer that's spearheaded a movement away from combustion to vaporization, demonstrating that a marijuana business could work in conjunction with state regulatory agencies to their mutual benefit, and being in the vanguard as one of the country's first cannabis businesses to function as a corporation in practice not just name.

History
Noticing an unmet demand for consistent, safe, and organic products, in 2010 they created Organa Labs. .
 * each have extensive backgrounds in health care, so the medical marijuana business seemed like a good fit, one that could be both professional and compassionate. They viewed medical marijuana as a viable alternative to a stew of heavy-duty narcotics in certain situations.

Denver botanist and cannabis cultivator * became a partner in 2011.

That partnership then merged with * ______ in 2012.

Presently, the same partnership(?) owns Openvape, which manufacturers the O.Pen and Vape Cartridges, and has expanded its corporate umbrella to include _______.

Transition from a mom and pop dispensary to the corporate world
Four years after starting out as a mom and pop dispensary businesses, in December, 2013 CNNMoney featured Organa Labs new corporate headquarters as a model of the types of business springing up along what it termed "Colorado's cannabis corridor." The CNN story compared figures like Organa Labs' 1600% annual growth in 2013 and projected 600% growth in 2014 to the [[Dot-com|dot-com rush. The story may have dispelled the stereotype that a cannabis business is a bunch of guys smoking pot sitting around in their offices, suggesting that a turning point has been reached where companies like Organa Labs are operating as serious businesses striving to build a culture of excellence around cannabis.

Organa Labs plans to expand to a 160,000 square-foot showcase facility on the 'cannabis corridor', aka I-25. The planned facility includes a cannabis museum and gift shop.

The O.Pen and vape cartridges
Personal vaporizers shaped like E-cigarettes that accommodate twist-on vape cartridges — tiny cannisters of cannabis oil — are all the rage. The technology has improved by leaps and bounds. Of these, sources ranging from the website of one of Colorado's largest dispensaries to major television networks suggest that as of December, 2013 the O.pen vape was the most popular vape pen in an exponentially expanding marketplace.

NBC News' New York I-Team showed the O.Pen several times in its report on the increasing popularity of what it termed "e-cigarettes" as a THC-delivery system.

Guest Cheryl Shuman held an O.Pen to her lips on Fox News' Geraldo At Large. Host Geraldo Rivera noted that vapor pens are spreading like wildfire. Another guest, High Times editor Bobby Black suggested one explanation for that would be how easily they can be adapted for use with cannabis concentrates.

Geraldo Rivera tried out an O.Pen with High Times editor Bobby Black.


 * told the Associated Press that hash oil and other concentrates now account for nearly one-third of sales at his two medical marijuana dispensaries. The story was picked up by CBS News.

References in Media
The Wall Street Journal quoted * in its feature on Colorado Cannabis Tourism.

Organa Labs played an instrumental role in the "Pot Sauce Williams" saga first reported in The Cleveland Plain Dealer.

Denver weekly Westword reported that Coloradoans would be soon to be able to sample the Williams family's barbeque sauce with a twist; what Ohioans have known for fifty years as Hot Sauce Williams would be infused with Organa Labs' honey oil and rebranded as "Pot Sauce Williams."

New York weekly The Village Voice also found the Pot Sauce Willie's story significant.

Cooperation with regulatory agencies
Organa Labs' * was selected by the Colorado Department of Revenue's State Licensing Authority to sit on its Concentrates Production Safety Working Group entrusted with authoring regulations for recreational marijuana as mandated by Colorado Amendment 64.


 * , an Organa Labs partner, has been quoted by The Denver Post stating the relationship between Colorado dispensaries and state regulators shows that while regulating marijuana sales may be a monumental task, cooperation between regulators and industry players can and does take place in Colorado. The article hints that cooperation could be replicated elsewhere.

Lewis Koski, the Colorado Marijuana Enforcement Division's Chief of Investigations, told CNNMoney in "Colorado Pot Big Businesses," the same show that featured Organa's Labs Todd Mitchem, "What we are hoping is that we can provide a model for that for other states as they elect to move forward with their own marijuana policy."

Advocacy for responsible packaging

 * called for responsible packaging in the medical marijuana industry in The Colorado Independent..

The growing cannabis industry is still hammering out regulations for the labeling and packaging of "medibles". * also addresses the issue on behalf of nationwide industry groups like the National Cannabis Industry Association (NCIA).

Organa Labs partner * also speaks on behalf of NCIA.