Inside a Medical-Marijuana Firm With a Sweet Tooth
WEST HAVEN, Conn.—Dain Colandro grew microgreens while working in New York City restaurants. He left that industry to run the medical-marijuana bakery here at Advanced Grow Labs.
In an industrial kitchen with Momofuku Milk Bar and Bouchon Bakery cookbooks on the shelves, the company prepares marijuana-laced peanut-butter cookies, brownie bites and chocolate-hazelnut French macarons. The company plans on adding honey as well as a hazelnut spread to its lineup.
While Mr. Colandro’s training at the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, N.Y., and his restaurant experience helped him land the job, he said his passion is growing medical marijuana. One afternoon last week, under the orange tint of high-pressure sodium lights in one of the company’s late-stage grow rooms, he inspected the buds of a short, bushy Indica plant.
“These are really starting to swell,” said Mr. Colandro, pointing to the plant’s sticky flowers covered in white frost and...
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