Cannabis Care Team and Sunrise Dispensaries Partnership

ST LOUIS, MISSOURI – Cannabis Care Team and Sunrise Cannabis have partnered to complete Cannabis Care Team dispensary staff training for each of their 5 locations in MIssouri, including St Louis, Maryville, Clinton, Macon, and Kansas City. Their dispensary teams complete 40 hours of training, including the evidence-based CCT modules How to Explain the Endocannabinoid System to Customers, Managing Symptoms with an Effective Plan that Utilizes both Short and Long Acting Methods of Delivery, and How to Avoid Giving Medical Advice.

Sunrise’s St Louis staff includes a number of employees previously on unemployment and the location is in an older neighborhood in the city’s footprint and is just around the corner from the mighty Mississippi River. This license group is a vertically integrated company with a patient centered focus, making them a perfect partner for CCT’s patient centered Education Before Medication mantra. Their St Louis location’s grand opening will take place on Friday, August 27 at noon.

Sunrise CEO Richard Gunnels is a Missouri farmer whose family has been cultivating in Macon for over a century and has plans to positively impact Missouri’s MJ program in the communities in which they operate.

CCT’s training incorporates their nursing experience and what they have learned from cannabis consumers, new and experienced, from all over the nation. April says, “For patients to be successful with cannabis they need to have confidence in this plant. We teach dispensary staff the science patients are desperate for, but also how to provide that science in a non-intimidating way.” CCT will train all 5 locations as they prepare to open incrementally.

“We are so pleased to partner with Sunrise, with 192 dispensaries set to be operational by end of year, we believe that a positive patient experience with dispensary staff will heavily dictate which dispensaries will attract and retain repeat business and community engagement.” said April Hatch RN, MSN about the partnership. “To partner with operators who also focus on bettering the community in which they are located is inspiring and we’re looking forward to volunteering in the community alongside the Sunrise staff.”