Start a cannabis brand without a license

No. Everything is done under our brand partnership model. JIT holds the licenses and conducts all cannabis activity. Your company owns the brand — name, logo, artwork — licenses it to us, and pays us for brand services. Because you never buy, hold, or sell cannabis, you don't need a DCC license.

No, for the same reason: you aren't conducting commercial cannabis activity. We still recommend a quick check with your own attorney for your specific situation.

Yes, and in fact that's the only way it works. One important clarification: under California law, the cannabis inventory is JIT's, produced and sold under your brand. JIT sources, manufactures, tests, packages, stores, and invoices the finished product directly to licensed dispensaries as the seller of record. Nothing ever ships to you. Being the seller of record is a licensing requirement, not a sales service — finding the accounts and working the buyers is still your side of the deal unless you add sales to your package.

You do. Marketing, dispensary outreach, and account management are the brand owner's job, and they are the part of this business that never touches the plant — you can run it remotely or work accounts in person. We'll be straight with you about what that takes: buyers largely order from brands they already have a relationship with, so cold outreach is slower than most people expect. If you would rather not build that from scratch, JIT can take sales and marketing on, priced as a percentage of collected wholesale revenue. Collected, not invoiced — we only earn when the money actually lands. Ask us for the rate sheet or bring it up on the call.

There are two ways in. A full brand partnership starts at $25,000, covering your first production run, packaging, brand setup, and your first three months of services. It's set there deliberately: a smaller budget buys a run too small to get real placement, at our worst per-unit pricing, with nothing left to cover the months between production and the day dispensaries pay. A Pop-Up Brand starts at $10,000 and puts your label on inventory we already hold — there's no production run to finance, so the same money goes further. Our estimator will itemize the manufacturing side of any run.

In our licensed Sacramento facility — secured, camera-covered, limited access. You choose climate-controlled dry or cold storage, with a locked cage available on either. Concentrates genuinely belong in cold, and in a Sacramento summer so do gummies and vape carts. Your goods are covered under our insurance while they're in our custody. The first 30 days after production are free, and rates escalate from month four — that's intentional, because storage should push a decision about slow inventory rather than quietly become a warehouse lease. Request the rate sheet for current pricing.

Because the inventory is legally ours, we invoice the dispensary and we collect. Your income is a remittance from us: we deduct manufacturing, storage, services, and any sales fee from what's collected, and the balance goes to you. That's also why sales is priced on collected revenue rather than invoiced — nobody gets paid on an invoice a store never honors.