Growers working with GrowSpan can customize their structure or planting space to meet their most specific requirements, and can also take advantage of internal financing and installation services.

Since 1979, GrowSpan Greenhouse Structures has been providing growers with customized greenhouse and environmental control solutions. In the past ten years, GrowSpan has applied its extensive experience to the cannabis industry. Growers working with GrowSpan can customize their structure or planting space to meet their most specific requirements, and can also take advantage of internal financing and installation services.

GrowSpan offers a variety of commercial greenhouse options, including Venlo-style structures, and can be equipped with fully automated light deprivation systems and customized environmental control systems for each greenhouse, allowing year-round operation in any region. From heating and lighting to fertilization and odor mitigation, GrowSpan has everything growers need to create structures to complement and optimize their business. GrowSpan's environmental control expertise can also help growers design a healthy and profitable cannabis planting room.

GrowSpan is the only greenhouse manufacturer in North America that uses the revolutionary greenhouse design software CASTA. CASTA allows GrowSpan to design large greenhouse structures to ensure excellent durability and growth environment. CASTA provides ideal cost performance, so there is no need for over-designed or under-designed structures, and growers can get the best structure according to their budget.

GrowSpan is indeed a one-stop greenhouse and planting shop, manufacturing is done in-house. GrowSpan’s expansive 60-acre manufacturing facility in Daylesville, Iowa has state-of-the-art equipment and allows GrowSpan to keep the project in-house, simplifying the design and construction process. Because the facility is located in the city center, GrowSpan can quickly transport buildings and provide customers with the structure and equipment they need when they need it.

GrowSpan has a group of cannabis and greenhouse experts with industry experience. They understand the unique challenges of growing cannabis and how to effectively utilize greenhouse structures in a booming business. They can provide valuable advice and help clients design structures that optimize crop quality and profitability. They help the operations department to transform its development into thriving companies that have staying power in some of the toughest markets.

Throughout its history, GrowSpan has participated in thousands of greenhouse and environmental control projects, and helped cannabis businesses of all sizes produce high-quality crops. GrowSpan prides itself on providing a unique and practical structure that can help growers create or maintain a year-round profitable growth business.

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The fact that many cannabis companies are deemed essential is an incredible feat for an industry that has been battling bans for decades and is still in its infancy.

When you read this question, it is difficult to know what the United States and the world will be like.

This is what we know as of press time. Many states including New Jersey, Louisiana and Michigan have joined the ranks of California and New York and issued asylum-in-place orders in response to the coronavirus outbreak. Many schools have been closed for two weeks, some schools will not reopen until April, and some schools will not reopen until the next school year. More than a dozen states postponed the primary election, including Ohio, which made a decision a few hours before the voting began, and has since switched to mail-only voting. The Summer Olympics were also shelved. So far, more than 3 million people have applied for unemployment benefits. Within a few days, the number of COVID-19 cases in the United States quadrupled as more tests revealed a more realistic picture of the damage caused by the outbreak.

If possible, many people in non-critical jobs are required to work remotely. The proposal of shelter-in-place restricts more people from venturing into businesses deemed essential, such as grocery stores, dispensaries, and in many states, licensed cannabis cultivation facilities and dispensaries.

This is a remarkable feat for an industry that is still in its infancy and has been fighting the ban for decades.

Finding a silver lining during a global pandemic can be difficult, especially when your business is facing challenges directly related to COVID-19. However, realities that may be taken for granted often surface in crises. Not only those who have been advocating reforms and wise policies recognize this extraordinary plant as an important, basic and mainstream medicine, but also state officials, even in these unpredictable and unprecedented times.

For example, Ohio approved its medical plan less than four years ago, and the first pharmacy opened in 2019. In the home order of the health director, "licensed medical marijuana use, medical marijuana dispensaries, and licensed medical marijuana cultivation centers" are marked as "basic business and operations" to further support its legality.

Some governments have also moved quickly to accommodate cannabis companies. For example, in Illinois, where pharmacies can now provide patients with roadside shuttle services, all of this is to promote social distancing. Flexible planting operations and pharmacies are immediately implementing policies to promote product plans such as drive-through and adapt to new realities.

However, some states have imposed more restrictions on businesses. Adult pharmacies in Massachusetts must be closed during the asylum-in-place order. However, the pharmacy can continue to operate.

Although the Cannabis Business Times team continues to post the latest news on our website to let you know the impact of COVID-19 on the industry, we are making adjustments through remote work, relying on Skype and other technologies to communicate and publish our magazines. We are still working on rescheduling our annual cannabis conference that was scheduled to take place in April, but it has now been postponed. As soon as there is a new date, we will share it with you.

Although we are lucky to have many platforms to connect with colleagues, friends and family at home, it is strange that we can’t get together to do common things in person, such as eating in restaurants — or attending meetings. We look forward to hosting a cannabis conference, which is an important educational event for an important industry, where we can once again establish contacts and learn. After this, we will have a lot to discuss.

According to Gallup, people who consider themselves liberals are six times more likely to smoke marijuana than those who consider themselves conservatives.