Kassie Ferrero has been on the KCC team for over 2 years and is one of the original team members of our very first dispensary in Blue Springs. Back then, she was joining an eclectic group of about 20 people who were all trying to put together one of the best dispensary experiences in Kansas City. Since then, Kassie has excelled and has been promoted multiple times, with the most recent being to Purchasing Manager, and is now in charge of one of the most valuable pieces of the dispensary process and experience; purchasing products. This role puts the product vetting and purchasing process on her list of duties and her success is the reason we had an excess of products around the 4/20 holiday.

Outside of her success in the cannabis industry, Kassie is also an accomplished musician and has been playing the double bass for over 20 years. Pursuing professional growth in her music career is actually what brought her to Kansas City back in 2019 to teach at Northwest Missouri State. When asked when she decided on making music her career she said there was no formal deciding moment; she just knew it was something she loved doing. When it came time to make decisions about college, there was no other real option. Her career in the cannabis industry was a bit more unexpected.

Kassie was first introduced to cannabis in high school but she wasn’t immediately drawn to the plant and she definitely wasn’t imagining a career outside of music. It wasn’t until 2014, when she sustained a performance injury, that Kassie had an inadvertent career change towards cannabis. After being injured, she was having to figure out how to deal with chronic pain while still maintaining a top tier performance skillset. She tried many different routes to help relieve her from the pain she was experiencing but in the end, cannabis was the key. From there, Kassie continued down her inadvertent path towards the cannabis industry by first experiencing the medicinal benefits from cannabis and then finding herself in a part time role as a budtender at a dispensary in Baltimore called Charm City Medicus. It was there that Kassie decided that if she was to have a career outside of music, she would prefer it to be within the cannabis industry.

Fast forward to 2020 and Kassie had just finished teaching a bass lesson at her home studio before jumping on an interview with some of the KCC team. She was then offered a position on the original team at Blue Springs. She was hesitant to accept the position because of the potential disapproval from her music colleagues but she ultimately took the leap of faith into a full time role and started in early 2021. Since then, she has been on the come-up, utilizing her strengths to help provide the best dispensary experience in Missouri all while performing full time with many orchestras. She has become the face of business relations at KCC and is utilizing her platform to empower other women to find success within the cannabis space.

These days, Kassie tends to lean towards ‘indica-dominant’ strains but she does have major love for the Golden family of strains, particularly Golden Strawberry (Golden Goat x Sour Strawberry), because they tend to be more euphoric and mood boosting. Her favorite strain is Blue Cookies (Blueberry x GSC) due to its pain and stress relieving benefits and its mouth watering taste.

Kassie plans to continue her cannabis career and to one day find herself on the executive staff of a cannabis company. She will then retire to a home in the Appalachian Mountains where she will coexist with nature, growing a garden of vegetables and Golden Strawberry with her partner and animals.