Floyd Landis is rolling with the dope crowd again, but this time around there are no secret blood transfusions on remote roadsides in the French Alps, no illicit syringes filled with olive oil and testosterone, no injections of human growth hormone or the banned blood booster EPO.
But there is a 34,000-square foot warehouse filled with thousands of marijuana plants heavy with glistening buds the size of pine cones.
“It’s an ocean of weed, man,” the elite cyclist-turned-ganjapreneur says with a laugh as he visits his business associate Mike Conroy of Tru Cannabis, a marijuana dispensary chain that grows strains such as Blue Dream, Sour OG and Critical Mass in this boxy industrial building off Interstate 70.
“Legalization is something that should have happened a long time ago,” Landis adds, referring to the ballot measures in Colorado and other states that decriminalized the medical and recreational use of marijuana. “It’s a better alternative than putting minority kids in prison. The war on drugs is not working. War on drugs? More like a war on poor people.”
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