SEATTLE -- At first glance, DB3 Inc.'s downtown Seattle factory appears like any other. White walls, tile floors. A staging room stacked with plastic-wrapped cardboard boxes. Sterile and spacious, employees donning white lab coats and hair nets buzz around the factory floor. But what's being produced here is on the cutting edge of a new industry -- one that lies at the heart of Alaska's debate surrounding marijuana legalization.
In a former life, the warehouse was a processing plant for chicken salad. Now, it's mass-producing some of the first recreational marijuana edibles and concentrates in Washington, following the passage of Initiative 502, which legalized recreational marijuana in the state.
"This is a pioneering industry," co-owner Patrick Devlin said. "It's all ground-breaking."