In the end, Kyle and Eric decided to go for it under the theory that "worst-case scenario, we could start over in real estate when the market picked up. We wondered, 'Is it worth playing the game and waiting it out - seeing if in five years we can make it through? Do we take the small amount of money we'd made in real estate up until that point and put it into an opportunity that could be very valuable?" "But the one thing we had going for us is that it was actually riskier to be in the real estate market back then. I've always been intrigued by cannabis, and I've partaken for the majority of my adult life, but the risks of getting into the business were heavy, just huge" thanks to the threat of a federal crackdown on the medical marijuana industry - concerns that have re-emerged following the appointment of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, an anti-pot zealot. The Green SolutionThen 2010 rolled around and, Kyle says, "We started hearing a lot of rumblings about the cannabis industry. He did three tours in Iraq and Afghanistan." Eric went to the Marine Corps for a little while, and I kept doing real estate, and my other brothers, Brad and Nick, were doing their own things. The real estate biz was going well until "the bubble of ’08, ’09," Kyle continues, "and that's where Eric and I thought of pivoting. "We owned a real estate company and started flipping houses and doing development pretty much right out of high school and into college." "I have a twin brother, Eric, and we've worked together for the majority of our lives," says Kyle, who's originally from the Fort Wayne, Indiana, area but was raised in Northglenn from the age of five. Indeed, he and his three brothers have helped develop the operation over the past seven years into what seems poised to become a signature cannabis business from coast to coast. Today, The Green Solution is one of Colorado's largest marijuana dispensary chains, and it's expanded into four other states so far, with big plans for future growth. But co-founder and CEO Kyle Speidell, who recently spoke to us about the launch of Blazin' Hit Radio, the ambitious new online home of former KS 107.5 favorites Larry and Kathie J, who are hosting a welcome-back party for listeners on Friday, September 22 (details below), notes that TGS is, at its heart, a family affair.
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