Steve White When she was hired at Harvest as a new store opener and trainer in May 2019, she was excited to work for a larger, multistate dispensary company with a sterling reputation.īut when she started going into stores, McCurdy’s lawsuit claims, she started finding problems. Eventually, LAPD came in and raided the establishment.” “Our owners did not inform us about this. “Our owners were apparently in a dispute with LAPD about being several inches too close to a library,” she said. McCurdy, a nine-year veteran of the marijuana industry across California, Nevada, Oregon, and Arizona, said she was sensitive about compliance issues because she was involved in a raid at a dispensary in Los Angeles in 2014 that resulted in her arrest.
“But once I started getting in further and further within the organization, I just realized that a lot of it is smoke and mirrors,” she told New Times. One of the former staffers, 29-year-old Mollie McCurdy, said a Harvest representative who interviewed her for the job claimed compliance was her top priority. Harvest has not formally responded to the allegations yet, but CEO Steve White told Phoenix New Times, “Of course they will be denied.” The ex-employees are demanding compensatory, punitive, and special damages in amounts to be determined at a jury trial. The lawsuits filed in Maricopa County Superior Court on April 23 allege that Harvest staff improperly labeled marijuana products, sold THC-labeled products to nonpatients in a dispensary lobby, and stored marijuana products in a dispensary ceiling, among other violations of the Arizona Medical Marijuana Act.īoth former staffers say they repeatedly sounded the alarm about illegal practices at Harvest dispensaries, only to be ignored and rebuffed by managers. Two former employees of the multistate dispensary operator Harvest Health and Recreation are suing the company, accusing it of engaging in a slew of compliance violations and asking them to break Arizona law.
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