Beau Allulli is the founder and owner of Mighty Lucky, a forthcoming CAURD dispensary in Manhattan’s Lower East Side. He answered eight simple questions for NY Cannabis Insider’s “People to know” series.
What is your position and what do you/your company do in the cannabis space?
I’m the founder and owner of Mighty Lucky, a CAURD-licensed retail shop opening at 259 Bowery in New York City.
How long have you worked in the cannabis space?
I was a legacy operator in the Manhattan delivery space for more than 15 years.
What did you do before you were involved in the cannabis industry?
Born in south Louisiana, I studied theater at Southeastern Louisiana University, where I received a BA in 1999. During that time I worked in the food service industry. In 2000, at 24 years old, I moved to New York from Louisiana to pursue a life in theater. From 2000 to 2008 I spent my time performing, developing skills in photography, working in the New York fine dining service industry in addition to starting a cannabis delivery service in Manhattan. In 2009 in the East Village, I founded Beau Allulli Photography Corp., later to DBA in 2017 as Mighty Lucky Studio with a new location in LES, which is still operational today.
What led you to the cannabis industry?
What led me to cannabis in general, was being a dedicated consumer. It has been a constant companion since I was first introduced to brick weed, filled with seeds, back in the early ‘90′s. The experience of smoking cannabis was so positively profound that it became an unpronounced mission to get other people high. If you crossed my path in the last 35 years and you smoked weed, we would have gotten high together. The positive side effect of that compulsion, as I quickly realized, is that there is a basic economy built in to getting people high. It was always my side hustle in college, but the depth of the trade was very surface. I only exchanged enough to pay for my supply and a little extra. My bravado and general…
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