You confirm your schedule for the week with a simple yes or no, and then receive instructions for when to arrive, where and how long the trim job will last. You check in at 6, to a chorus of “good mornings” from your team members. Because of the ever-changing and flexible needs and schedules of grow houses and dispensaries, this was more than necessary and taken VERY seriously. Trusted Herb Care has three different WhatsApp group chats that require 24/7 engagement from trimmers, of which there are over 100. Working with Trusted Herb Care taught me the importance of a well-oiled communication machine in the cannabis industry. Dina employs leaders and trainers to work with her trimmers, and they make an extra $10 more than we do (average trim salary is $15 per hour.) She ultimately became a business owner and focused her attention on bringing other trimmers and weed professionals to the table, specifically Black ones, and giving them the same opportunities. At one point, Dina was one of the best trimmers in the city. After a couple days, Trusted Herb Care’s owner Dina Misho called me to confirm my schedule. All I was asked to do was show up, and I could easily do that. Vetra told me to call a woman named “Amanda”, and with Vetra’s recommendation, I was hired immediately–no application, references or drug tests needed. Through Trusted Herb Care, I trimmed for three different facilities over the span of two weeks GoldKine Cannabis on Groesbeck Highway, Tango Jack in Warren and again at 1st Quality Medz in River Rouge. When Vetra suggested that I join another team of women who trim at several cultivation centers in Detroit, I thought it would be a great way to make extra money for Christmas and I’d get to sample some of the incredible strains grown in Detroit. While I only trimmed at 1st Quality Medz for 3 days, I made a cool $375 at the end of my shifts, which felt like a great amount for a short time of work. 1st Quality Meds paid $25 per hour to trimmers during their harvest season (which is typically in October.) I’d heard about the opportunity directly from Vetra. My first time trimming was for 1st Quality Medz in River Rouge, a Black woman-owned cultivation house under the leadership of Vetra Stephens. It’s a sticky, tedious job that involves removing seeds and stem fragments from bud to be sold by hand. It’s a trimmers job to “trim” all of the leaves and stems from these nuggets, separate them from the stem, and only put the very biggest and best nugs on the shelves to sell to consumers. I started looking for opportunities to contribute and learn, and I found trimming.įor those that don’t know, the smokable parts of cannabis flowers grow in dense, tightly-packed nuggets or “nugs” on the stem of the plant. I didn’t just want to appreciate the art, I wanted to support the creation. Increased access led to increased interest, not just in the process behind cultivating cannabis but also the people behind it. Detroit’s cannabis industry has been legal since 2018 and the amount of places to buy weed expanded to mimic liquor stores in the hood they were popping up on every corner. As a consumer of the sticky icky for most of my adult life, I’d had the experience of tasting most of what the world has to offer, from Cali’s best to the exotic flower of Johannesburg, South Africa. It’s a pretty funny story– I started out trimming in the cannabis industry simply to find the best weed in Detroit.
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