Green View Magazine | December 2019

41 GREEN VIEW MAGAZINE DECEMBER 2019 In the dispensary are orbs three feet in diameter driven by indoor GPS that do a show once an hour, floating above people buying product, changing colors and patterns, and dancing up on the 25-foot ceiling. The orbs are from AirStage, a small but very technically-savvy company. “If you spend $50 on purchases, you can go to our 124-foot-long outdoor art wall. If you stand 30 feet away after dusk, you can laser spray paint onto it - messages like, ‘Jill, will you marry me?’ Everybody takes a picture and puts it on social media and helps advertise for us. Then, you press a button and it’s gone. I do hours of research to source these special effects. Then Bob and I sit together and decide which one we’d rather do, which draws the most customers, which is most entertaining for the average person. We put our budget at $1 million for this opening and it came to a total of about $1.5 million, so we had to cut some. “Our new project takes up one third of the 15,000-sq.-ft. production facility we just announced. It’s 120 ft. long and 30 ft. deep with solid glass where you can watch the chocolates and gummy squares being made, and the bottling of the beer - like a Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory. On the little level above it, Ana robotics company has created two robotic arms – one that takes the cans and puts them on the conveyor through the canning process and the other puts them in the cases. That’s all fine but after a while it gets boring to us, so we had the company put one on a rail and, once an hour, it goes over to the other and pretends to hit it. Then they start dueling with wooden sticks. It’s all choreographed. One knocks the stick out of the other’s hand, the loser bows, the winner uncaps a bottle of beer, while the other one tilts an empty glass sideways, and the winning arm pours. They share a beer, then go back to work. Our shows always have to give something more for the tourists.” GVM: What do your cannabis operations entail? Melting Point Extracts is devoted to providing the cleanest and most effective products possible. Pairing fundamentally sound techniques with exceptional starting materials and state of the art equipment to ensure an unforgettable experience in every exhale. We specialize in Hydrocarbon, CO2, and solvent-free extractions to provide a diverse line of high quality products. Learn more by visiting MeltingPointExtracts.com @mpx_us