A Small Town Story: Grace CBD and Dispensary
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self having options. In small town dispensaries here in the state that are located far from the city limits, that is not the case. Unless a grower or processor is in their area, most of these dispensaries only see products leaving through the front doors of their shops and never entering. I started to get that feeling more and more on my Tokie Tee travels, but I saw this in Melody Horton’s face SGD Ƽ QRS SHLD ( LDS GDQ @S SGD &QDDM&QNV Expo at the beginning of March. She asked how many designs of ours she would have to order for us to mail her shop some to Watonga, Ok. I told her forget mail, if she ordered even one of our designs, I would personally deliver them so I could visit the shop my brand was being welcomed in. If her jaw was any KNNRDQ GDQ LNTSG L@X G@UD GHS SGD ƌ NNQ (SŗR KHJD RGD GD@QC SG@S SGD D@QSG V@R ƌ @S She was shocked. And I knew at that moment that the dispensaries, and in return, patients in these small towns are being forgotten about. -NS NMKX HR HS G@QC ENQ SGDL SN Ƽ MC OQNC
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