If look at the map issued by the city of Creswell you will see 3-4 locations someone could open a store and compete with us. I am unsure why that fact is missed by you. We have a prime location, but so does many other businesses. AM/PM enjoys a prime location on gas sales in the area, but that doesn't mean 76 Station cant open. 

As only one of those people has a position within One Gro (and is retail not sales, our VP of Sales is a former executive from Hitachi). It is easy to suggest that no companies hire anyone with a criminal background. But Oregon is ground zero for the black market. If you deny these people the ability to use their skillset for good legal ways, they will use them for bad illegal ways. That's the reality. I personally would like no one to have a checkered past, but just as the people who helped design the alcohol distribution network we use today after prohibition had connections to black market bootlegging, the marijuana industry will have a transition.