Ray’s Lemonade has been in the cannabis industry since Washington’s legal marketplace opened back in 2014. Brothers Dan and Ray Kinney got into the business like most others did, starting by growing flower at their Stevens County farm. Yet what began as a side project would eventually become the main thrust of their business.
“When we started the farm, the lemonade was kind of our desire to have a value-added product, and it was mostly a secondary product. For the first several years the lemonade was just kind of trucking along with a few dozen accounts, and we had a more limited set of flavors,” Ray Kinney says of his eponymous beverage.
Today, drinks are the company’s primary product…