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Feature

Life-sustaining Business
& Medicine
Prime Wellness grows through pandemic

By Brandon Miller, Senior Director, Production
and Facilities, Prime Wellness of Pennsylvania

s a longtime cannabis cultivator, this year we posted signs about the importance of handwashing and
I can tell you that growing re-evaluated our SOPs for hygiene.
medical marijuana is not easy.
We have become even more vigilant during this epidemic, screening
Our plants develop according to their employees for symptoms at the start of their shifts and requiring
own demanding schedule. They don't non-operations staff to work from home. We also adjusted our
take days off, and they don't care about workspaces to ensure employees are keeping their distance. Walking
weekends, holidays or anniversaries.
through our facility, I sometimes feel like the monitor of an eighthThe life cycle of a cannabis plant also continues through a global grade dance, making sure everyone is at least 6 feet apart.
pandemic that has disrupted the world as we know it.
We operate in a highly regulated industry, and that has helped us
In March, Gov. Tom Wolf declared medical marijuana dispensaries manage this new reality. Our operations team has always donned
and grower/processors as essential, life-sustaining businesses, personal protective equipment while handling our plants, and
allowing Prime Wellness to maintain production during this global they are accustomed to wearing gloves and gowns as part of their
pandemic. From our nearly three years in Berks County, we know job. The coronavirus has forced us to adjust our schedules and our
patients rely on our medicine, and we are dedicated to supplying workspaces, but many of our core principles have remained the
same.
their dispensaries through this challenging time.
Growing indoor cannabis requires a strict attention to all the little I've been so proud of our team for how they've handled it all. I
details. We're constantly evaluating variables like temperature, light believe we have the best team in Pennsylvania, and they are doing
and humidity, because even the smallest environmental changes their absolute best to provide for our patients.
can impact how our plants develop. Throughout this public health The fact is there are no shortcuts or time off for our plants, so we
crisis, we have relied on our attention to detail to carry us through, must continue. No matter what happens - even through a global
focusing on everything within our control.
pandemic - we know we have to take care of our plants.
Even before COVID-19, we have focused on the health and safety
of our staff. It takes a team to grow cannabis, and we use every
inch of our 30,000-square-foot facility to meet the growing demand
for our products. We've always known the potential for a virus to
spread from person to person working in tight quarters, so earlier

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